The Marriage

Witold Gombrowicz, Jan Kott

Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
4.00 · 6 ratings · 158 pages · Published: 1948
The Marriage by Witold Gombrowicz, Jan Kott
This is a play about the shifting relationship between reality and imagination. Henry, a soldier stationed in northern France during World War II, has a dream about his father, mother, sweetheart, and best friend; the dream constitutes the action of the play. In the dream, Henry's imagination transforms himself and the other characters into players of multiple roles – Father and King, Mother and Queen, Servant and Princess, Son and Prince, Friend and Courtier. The author explores the kind of transformations which occur in human relationships and which allow a father to be elevated to kingship and then deposed, the lost chastity of a young woman to be restored by a respectable marriage, and one's character and relationship to others to be built totally through one's individual perception.

To some extent, The Marriage parodies Shakespearean convention, for the type of complication of plot and character provides a plausible and flexible context for Gombrowicz's ideas, and a dramatic exploration of the nature of the absolute reality of form in relation to the always changing reality of self and imagination.
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