L’eterno tabù dell’antropofagia. «I cannibali» di George Tabori

Through his controversial drama The Cannibals, set in a barrack of Auschwitz, Tabori tries to free himself from the ghosts of his past and to elaborate his grieving for the death of his father Cornelius, who was murdered there by the Nazis in 1944. In spite of the alternation of funereal and jesting tones in the dialogues, the text remains shrouded in a gloomy and anguished atmosphere, because the ultimate choice for the prisoners is either the anthropophagy or the gas chamber.