The Theatre of Frustration: Super Realism in the Dramatic Work of F.X. Kroetz and Michel Tremblay

Abstract

This volume, another in the Garland Studies in Comparative Literature series, attempts a comparative examination of the Bavarian playwright Franz-Xavier Kroetz and Quebecois dramatist Michel Tremblay as exponents of Super Realism. “The purpose of this book,” the author tells us, “will be to show that there indeed exists, to use Kandinsky’s terms, a similarity of both ‘inner mood’ and ‘external forms’, created not by direct influence, but by a similarity of ideals, goals, and literary approaches.” She demonstrates convincingly that the themes, language, characters, structure, and settings of both dramatists have a good deal in common; but whether they espouse a style that may be unequivocally identified as Super Realism is open to challenge.

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