THE MYTH OF THE NEW MAN IN THE SOCIALIST-ORIENTED GERMAN LITERATURE: "CEMENT" (HEINER MULLER’S ADAPTATION OF A NOVEL WITH THE SAME TITLE BY FEODOR GLADKOV TO STAGE)
The article considers a phenomenon of reference of Heiner Muller to the material of the Soviet literature (F. Gladkov, M. Sholokhov) in search of peddlers of communist utopia. The article concludes that the crucial issue in adaptation work for the playwright was to reveal a complex of contradictions and difficulties of the emergence of the New Man. H. Muller demonstrates ambiguity of the man's transfiguration process and he focuses on the theme of the emancipation of women and raises before readers and spectators a question about the viability of the Myth of the New Socialist Man. The article concentrates on images and parallels of ancient literature which make the play remains valid and its conflict be timeless.