А.갈리치-К.이사예프의 희극 『타이미르에서 전화 왔습니다』의 희극적 구조와 수용

Abstract

This paper is devoted to study A.Galich-K.Isaev’s comedy-joke 『The Taimyr Is Calling You』: It’s comic structure of comedy is analyzed, and aspects of the Soviet reception are focused in relation to Soviet theater policy. This will reveal the aesthetic characters of the comedy and investigate changes of the evaluation and their causes. The overwhelming dominance of the comic situation is characteristic of the comedy 『The Taimyr Is Calling You』. The four central episodes that make up the plot of the comedy are all determined by comic situations. The intrigue(promise), combined with chance, motivates the origination of the misunderstanding, from which the comic situation is formed. Other comic situations are continuously created from a preceding situation. Such a plot of the comedy is consistent with the plot of the vaudeville: The comedy 『The Taimyr Is Calling You』 becomes a total comedy, which is aimed at laughter and amusement like vaudeville, where consecutive occurrence of comic situations is the structural principle of plot. The proportion of character comic is very low in 『The Taimyr Is Calling You』. There is no negative character in the comedy. The weaknesses of positive characters are exhausted as materials for comic situations, not character comic. Language comic is also very limited; it is the comic situation that determines the comic nature of the dialogue, not the language. The comedy 『The Taim yr Is Calling You』 was the most important comedy in the Soviet comedy controversy after World War II. The criticized element was the vaudeville technique used to create comic situations. Despite the Central Committee’s decision negatively affecting comedy‘ condition and the negative evaluation of official party ciriticism 『The Taimyr Is Calling You』 was still popular and recognized as a typical comedy of the light entertainment genre in the theatriclal circles of Soviet Union. In early 1948, the situation of light comedy changed convulsively with the campaign of Anti-Cosmolitanism: Communist Party and official criticism stigmatized Galich-Isaev’s comedy as globalism and formalism. Some critics insisted on eliminating 『The Taimyr Is Calling You』 from the Soviet Stage. Given the criticism of ‘the theory of conflictlessness’ in 1952, the situation for comedy is changed favorably, what led to the change of the aggressive criticism about 『The Taimyr Is Calling You』. Especially, the feature 「For the comedy(Za komediiu)」of the magazine 『Theater>』 in 1952 provided the moment of official acknowledgment of all comic genres.