The Dead Class (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Tadeusz Kantor
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Surrealism
- Time of Work: Evocation of 1914
- Setting: Poland
- Genres: Drama, Allegory, Surrealist literature
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Memory, 1910’s, Death or dying, Existentialism, Poland or Polish people, Old age or elderly people
- Locales: Poland
Characters Discussed
Old Students, eight elderly people, fellow students of the Old Man Repeater, the Old Man with a Bike, the Old Man in the Loo, and the Old Man Exhibitionist. They are dressed in black, with black bowlers; they have grayish faces and dead, staring eyes. Each student carries a child puppet on his back, dressed in school uniform, as an effigy of lost childhood and imprisonment in the past.
The Old Man in the Loo, a student. He sits in the school lavatory, engrossed in endless accounts and quarrels with God. This repetitive action suggests an eternal...
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