Absurd(yzm) w bałkańskim stylu. Wprowadzenie

Whe n, in the 1980s and 1990s, the plays by Stanislav Stratiev -one of the most prominent Bulgarian playwrights -were finally translated into a host of languages and staged in many countries, critics tried to explain the popularity by comparing him with playwrights who had to do with different faces of the absurd or with borderlands, like the phantasmagoria and the grotesque.Here is, for instance, what Edward J. Czerwinski of Slavic and East European Arts magazine said about The Roman Bath -Stratiev's first play, which was an instant and immense success: "[It] was Stratiev's first excursion into the world of Gogol and Mrożek.