Écrire la fragilité de l’existence humaine ou comment exprimer l’agonie (Bataille navale de Reinhard Goering, Pique-nique en campagne et Guernica de Fernando Arrabal)

In this article, the author studies the dramas which, while exposing the absurdity
of war, express an apocalyptic vision of humanity doomed to its destruction. Whether it is
Reinhard Goering’s Sea battle or Arrabal’s dramas (Picnic on the Battlefield and Guernica) we
are witnessing an obvious renewal of the tragedy. However, the authors do not apply the
rules specific to the canonical genre, but by shining a light on the precarious condition of
modern man, they paint a world in its self-destruction where there is no place for catharsis.
Tragic in its modernized version inevitably provokes the shaking of the dramatic form
which testifies not only to human agony but also to that of dramatic art. In fact, the two
playwrights undermine the main foundations of “absolute drama”, deconstructing the action
in the classic sense of the word and depriving their characters of their active attributes
of a hero of traditional theater.