A. Vampilov’s "reflexed worlds" in "The Duck Hunting": the anamorphosis of faces, subjects, time
The unreal world of «The Duck Hunting», a play by Alexander Vampilov, is reviewed through the prism of the baroque aesthetics and one of its main metaphors, «mirror» and «mirrors». A mirror, as a semiotic window, opens the unique poetical guideline of the play. It is doubling, tripling, multiplying the dramaturgic entire’s elements in their combinations, transformations, overlapping, circumrotation. The clue to finding anamorphism is immediately given by the original text.