Trifonova, Temenuga; (2015) Man of Glass. TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , 19 (29) pp. 166-199. 10.52086/001c.27281.

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Man of Glass is a script about delusion and obsession, sanity and insanity, and the line between the two. The story unfolds against the backdrop of fin de siècle Paris, a turbulent period marked by the rise of the new ‘sciences of mind’—psychology and psychiatry—and the development of new ‘scientific’ theories of madness and criminality. Disgusted with the mercantilism and vulgarity of the bourgeoisie, Gaspard de Ronsard, a decadent, neurotic aristocrat, impulsively assumes the identity of a stranger, who might be the serial killer that has been terrorizing Paris, only to find out that someone else has assumed his own identity.Trapped in the position of an impostor himself Gaspard struggles to reclaim his identity…even as it becomes increasingly unclear whether he is not the man he thinks he is pretending to be.The script poses larger existential questions about the fragility and ambiguity of identity, the possibility or impossibility of escaping who we are, and the dangerous obsession with becoming someone else.

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