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William Kluback. Benjamin Fondane: A Poet in Exile. New York: Peter Lang, 1996. xiv, 140 pp. $33.95 (paper).

William Kluback. Benjamin Fondane: A Poet in Exile. New York: Peter Lang, 1996. xiv, 140 pp.... play in the style o f such satisfyingly clever enactments o f irrationality as The Martyr- dom o f P e t e r Ohey or The Police. Mrozek, however, needed to explore other themes and other styles, and was lucky enough to score an immediate success with a wider European audience with Tango, his very first play written after he left Poland. Bor- rowing now from the "philosophizing grotesque" o f Witkacy, he produced a tragi- comedy that "is fully understandable within European history and culture." (p. 126) Tango, "a play about growing up in a world bereft o f standards," was followed by some two dozen plays. Stephan convincingly identifies two major themes during this period: the psychological strain o f living as an emigre outsider in Western Europe (presented both seriously and as the subject o f bitter comedy) and the dangers o f hew- ing to various "isms" and "rational" intellectual schemes for the improvement o f soci- ety. The latter theme, developed most fully in the play P o r t r a i t (1987), is linked to a guilt-ridden soul-searching by the author and to his by now oft-repeated belief that http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

William Kluback. Benjamin Fondane: A Poet in Exile. New York: Peter Lang, 1996. xiv, 140 pp. $33.95 (paper).

Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 35 (2-3): 368 – Jan 1, 2001

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© 2001 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0090-8290
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2210-2396
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10.1163/221023901X00857
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play in the style o f such satisfyingly clever enactments o f irrationality as The Martyr- dom o f P e t e r Ohey or The Police. Mrozek, however, needed to explore other themes and other styles, and was lucky enough to score an immediate success with a wider European audience with Tango, his very first play written after he left Poland. Bor- rowing now from the "philosophizing grotesque" o f Witkacy, he produced a tragi- comedy that "is fully understandable within European history and culture." (p. 126) Tango, "a play about growing up in a world bereft o f standards," was followed by some two dozen plays. Stephan convincingly identifies two major themes during this period: the psychological strain o f living as an emigre outsider in Western Europe (presented both seriously and as the subject o f bitter comedy) and the dangers o f hew- ing to various "isms" and "rational" intellectual schemes for the improvement o f soci- ety. The latter theme, developed most fully in the play P o r t r a i t (1987), is linked to a guilt-ridden soul-searching by the author and to his by now oft-repeated belief that

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Published: Jan 1, 2001

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