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The Space of Tragedy: Reading Balthasar’s Dramatic with Artaud Cover

The Space of Tragedy: Reading Balthasar’s Dramatic with Artaud

By: Simeon Theojaya  
Open Access
|Jun 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/perc-2025-0009 | Journal eISSN: 2284-7308 | Journal ISSN: 1224-984X
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