Expressionism in the 'Midnight' by Josip Kulundžić

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to get an insight into a part of Josip Kulundžić's expressionist drama through the analysis of the play Midnight and the playwright's attitude towards drama and dramatic and theatrical theories of the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello. Starting from the assumption that Kulundžić's expressionist dramatic opus is one of the paradigmatic and poetically most significant dramatic opuses of Croatian and Serbian dramatic expressionism, the first part of the paper will systematise Josip Kulundžić's expressionist dramatic opus, show its features and value, and through the analyses of the play Midnight mark the author's attitude towards pirandelism as a significant phenomenon on the then world drama and theatre scene. This revalues the significance and role of Josip Kulundžić and his dramatic work within the framework of Croatian and Serbian literature of the first half of the 20th century.

Keywords

• josip kulundžić
• midnight
• drama
• expressionism
• pirandelism