Atoms of God

The novel by Gejza Vamos Atoms of God was published for the first time in 1928. It is the best work of a Slovak doctor, writer and playwright who exiled in 1938. This inventive writer whose works were close to Expressionism, Surrealism and Dadaism comes back to Slovakia in the form of a theatre performance inspired by the most famous of his novels.

The stage production of a young team of artists is astonishing not only because of the non-traditional interpretation of the novel through the means of non-verbal theatre, but especially due to its competence and accuracy which has transmitted Vamos' spiritual message. The main character of Atoms of God is a broken doctor who, confronted with the life and death polarities, both at work and in his personal life, doubts a man and world and is not optimistic about the future. The points of the departure of the young creators’ artistic declaration were the influential sources of different art forms between the wars inherent in Vamos' novel. The young artists composed their message of Dadaism, Expressionism and Surrealism as the message about the world and value of life.