Słowa kluczowe: theatre, transgression, form, violence, desire, Jerónimo López Mozo, COVID-19, theatre in pandemic, Desde mi celda, testimony, Paul Claudel, La Ville, Renan, Taine, Rimbaud, Illuminations, symbolic figures, death, conversion, cross, humour, memory, transmission, laughter, Shoah, Alain Berenboom, autobiography, childhood, youth, liberation, literary calling, comparative literature, modernism and late modernism, Portuguese literature, Paul Celan, Romanian-language literature, Shibboleth, Jacques Derrida, genetic criticism, motion verbs, boundary crossing, Thinking-for-Speaking, second language acquisition, Romance languages, minority languages, greeting and farewell formulas