1. French Anarchism and Italian Futurism: 1890-1920
... not the closed space of a perfect society but engages in constant struggle against protean forms of domination, hierarchy and exploitation. It is the active creation of a more generous, loving and free society"22. In this way, much of Mirbeau's theatrical repertoire can be considered utopian in content to a significant extent, for example in Les Affaires sont les affaires (1903) he ... in 1890. As well as containing anarchistic-utopian content in the narrative of a strike, the play was equally a landmark in the style of its audience-engaging performance, as Cecilia Beach notes: La Grève...
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