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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2009  
         
  Article:   THE CANONICAL AUTHOR IN THE CHEKHOV MACHINE BY MATÉI VISNIEC.

Authors:  MIHAELA LOVIN.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  The article examines the writing strategy through which the playwriter Matéi Visniec transforms the canonical author in a character of his postmodern play The Chekhov Machine. Adopting Chekhov’s entire mature dramaturgy (from Ivanov to The Cherry Orchard) as a hipotext, the contemporary author uses both the formal features as well as the content of his canonical predecessor. Therefore, he disassembles and reassembles the Chekhovian writing device and uses the skeleton pattern of the canonical text as support in the rewriting process, he operates the transplant of canonical characters in the postmodern play and mediates the encounter between Chekhov and his characters.

Keywords: Matéi Visniec, The Chekhov Machine, Anton Chekhov, canonical author rewriting, biographical fiction, homage-play
 
         
     
         
         
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