Problemy współczesnego człowieka w dramatach Olega Bogajewa

Abstract

Last two decades of Russian dramaturgy extremely shows the crisis of values that
affected the generations living at the interphase between the two epochs. One of
the authors who was particularly sensitive to contemporary humans’ situation
was Oleg Bogayev. He was interested in disintegration of personality, emotional
coldness and lack of interpersonal ties. In his dramas, Bogayev presents a very
pessimistic vision of the reality enriching it by a fairy-tale-like fictional universe.
By using esthetics of postmodernism, the dramatist devises reflections on being
alone in the crowd, a feeling of alienation and a lack of wider interpersonal relations.
The author is also interested in the state of culture and art, that have been
knocked off the pedestal of uniqueness and are no longer playing the role of
higher values source. This article is an attempt of analysis of authors work in the
context of problems that contemporary human is facing