Homo viator w dramacie współczesnym

Abstract

The paper discusses three topos techniques in Polish drama after World War II. Wandering as a figure of fate is the centre of Roman Brandstaetter’s art. Round structure of a trap is in opposition to the open space of road in Tymoteusz Karpowicz’s dramas. Whereas, in Władysław Zawistowski’s works, wandering is an allegorical figure and a metonymy of emigration of the Polish intelligentsia in the 80-ies of the 20th century. Each of those authors ascribes different meanings to topos: the first one, Christian, the second one, existential and the third one, political.