Sylvia Sasse

The first-ever English translation of this dramatic work by Nikolai Evreinov. In the 1910s, the Russian theatre director and theorist Nikolai Evreinov (1879–1953) insisted on the theatricalisation of life. Twenty years later, Evreinov, who had left Russia in 1924, was in exile in Paris when Stalin staged three elaborate political show trials in Moscow. Evreinov then meticulously read the transcripts...

Theodor Adorno’s famous aesthetic theory was not merely a theory of the aesthetic; it also made a wider claim about the aesthetic implications of all theory. At the same time, we have to deal with aesthetic objects and events in which an aesthetic theory is inherent, which show themselves as art. From both sides—theory and aesthetics—a link can be made...