“Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.”
Source: Maldoror and the Complete Works
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Comte de Lautréamont 8
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Preface to A Way Out : A One-act Play (1929)
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Context: Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing. A least lyric alone may have a hard time, but it can make a beginning, and lyric will be piled on lyric till all are easily heard as sung or spoken by a person in a scene — in character, in a setting. By whom, where and when is the question.
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Martha Fawbush, "Bravo Concerts opens with excellent performance of Mozart classic". Asheville Citizen Times (October, 2003)
“I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy”
Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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