The Forgotten God in the Play There is no God – There is a God by Josip Kosor

The unpublished play There is no God – There is a God, written in 1933, is thematically organized as a play of a double foundation. Situated in the Zagreb milieu, it is a socially engaged critique of criminal acts and the immoral behavior of Minister and bank director Pilan Čičkić, as well as a drama of spiritual revival in which Čičkić the sinner, empowered by the spiritual and moral example of his wife Vera, tries to change through repentance and redemption of his sins. From initial introduction of the local variant of generic evil with Zagreb as a point of reference, the drama ends in a universal religious, idealistic projection, without offering a solution for the accumulated social differences, criminal fortune and abuse of political position. From the stylistic point of view, the paper focuses on the author’s characteristic appropriation of the expressionist poetics: pathetic / ecstatic verbalism, unfinished composition, the non-functional introduction of some scenes and characters, dynamics of dialogue, ideological dictatorship, clash of concepts such as spirit, domination of idealistic-cosmic visions, etc