The strike in theatre and the dilemmas of aesthetic form
Dialectical Criticism; Strike; Aesthetic Form; Theater; Drama.
Based on dialectical criticism, this research investigates how the literary work of art incorporates, in bourgeois forms of individual representation, the collective materialized in the historical struggle of workers, avoiding the direct comparison of works with society and among themselves, but focusing on the existing dialectical tension between form and content, under the theoretical support of Marxist criticism. In this way, the main focus of the critical task is on the explanation of the literary text, thus, the understanding of the aesthetic form is what explains the relations between literature and society and how the empiricism is converted, through the artistic work, into a form literary, that is, in what way the element which is in principle external is internalized to compose the structure of the work in an organic way. Considering the figuration of the collective and the strike as thematic focus, the works investigated in order to fulfill this purpose are: The weavers, by Gerhart Hauptmann, and They don't wear black tie, by Gianfrancesco Guarnieri.