« Faire la vaisselle » ou la mission littéraire selon Matéi Visniec

“Washing the dishes” or the mission of literature according to Matéi VisniecMatéi Visniec can be considered a “committed” author, in the broadest sense of the term, because he often speaks on current socio-political problems. For him, writing is a mission, as evidenced in numerous interviews and the peritexts of his works. This article aims to analyse Visniec’s relationship to literature and to his own writing, as well as to define his literary mission and to analyse the way it manifests itself in his dramatic work.