Kalisky, René

Kalisky, René

▪ Belgian author
born July 20, 1936, Brussels, Belgium
died May 2, 1981, Paris, France

      Belgian writer of Polish descent who is best known for the plays he wrote in the last 12 years of his life.

      Kalisky, whose father was killed at Auschwitz, was himself hidden from harm during World War II. These wartime experiences enabled him to write powerfully on Jewish subjects. Though he wrote essays and journalism as well as plays, Kalisky's reputation rests mainly on his drama, which was modern and innovative, yet with classical tragic dimensions. Experimenting with ideas present in the work of Bertolt Brecht (Brecht, Bertolt) and Luigi Pirandello (Pirandello, Luigi), Kalisky developed ideas of “superacting” and “supertext” as means to liberate not only player and script from convention but also to help realize the dramatic potential of an audience.

      Following early essays on Arab-Israeli themes, he began to write episodic historical plays: Trotsky, Etc (1969); Skandalon (1970), based on the life of the professional cyclist Fausto Coppi; Jim le téméraire (1972; “Jim the Lionhearted”), an alternative vision of Nazism; and Le Pique-nique de Claretta (1973; “Claretta's Picnic”), about the rise and fall of Mussolini. His later plays are more focused and complex in ideas and staging: La Passion selon Pier Paolo Pasolini (1977; “The Passion According to Pier Paolo Pasolini”) is a reconstitution of the Italian writer and film director's murder, incorporating the reenactment of scenes from Pasolini's films; Dave au bord de la mer (1978; “Dave on the Beach”) is a contemporary version of the biblical story of the meeting between Saul and David; and Sur les ruines de Carthage (1980; On the Ruins of Carthage) pits opposing visions of history. Of Kalisky's posthumous publications, Aïda vaincue (1979; “Aïda Defeated”), about a Jew's return to Europe, is the most accessible; Charles le téméraire (1984; “Charles the Lionhearted”) is a teleplay on a theme of Belgian history. Kalisky was working on Falsch (1981), a play centred on the biblical story of Joseph and his brothers, when he was struck by a fatal illness.

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