Alienation in Six Contemporary Spanish Playwrights.
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| 520 | 3 | |a Antonio Buero Vallejo's Historia de una escalera (1949) marks the beginning of a whole new social drama in post-civil-war Spain. With this play there emerges the new critical realism of Buero Vallejo and a subsequent generation of playwrights which has become known as "la generacion realista." In this dissertation the theme of alienation is examined using the dialectical weltanschaung of Karl Marx and of Marxist critics as the basis for an analysis of various plays of critical realism of the post-civil-war period in Spain. In the first chapter a definition of alienation is given based on Marx's Manuscripts of 1844, on several other of Marx's works, and on a series of studies of alienation by modern Marxist critics such as Adolfo Sanchez Vazquez, Istvan Meszaros, Francois Perroux, Bertell Ollman and others. In this dissertation alienation is understood as a state or condition in which man feels separated and fragmented from his humanity because of certain economic and social factors which are so influential that they come to control his destiny and thus render him impotent. This concept of alienation is applied in subsequent chapters to the analysis of the plays studied. In the second chapter a brief overview of the twentieth-century Spanish drama is presented in order to place Buero and the "realistic generation" in their precise historical context. This chapter is dedicated, for the most part, to those critical and biographical details about Buero and the generation that will enhance an understanding of the plays themselves. Starting with the third chapter, the dissertation is dedicated to a study of alienation in the plays of the authors dealt with. This chapter analyzes three plays of Buero: Historia de una escalera, Hoy es fiesta, and El tragaluz. The three, with their critical view of reality, testify to the alienation of modern man in a fragmented society that seemingly offers no opportunity for his realization. Three plays of Lauro Olmo analyzed in chapter four--La camisa, La pechuga de la sardina, and English Spoken--constitute this playwright's witness to a world in disintegration. The three plays of Carlos Muniz analyzed in the fifth chapter--El grillo, El precio de los suenos and El tintero--focus on the alienation of office workers in relation to their world. Los inocentes de la Moncloa, La batalla del Verdun, El ghetto o La irresistible ascencion de Manuel Contreras, and Los quinquis de Madriz, the plays of Jose Mar(')ia Rodr(')iguez Mendez studied in chapter six, present the alienation of a series of marginal human beings who can hardly survive in a society that seems to try to close all the doors to their betterment. Jose Mart(')in Recuerda's Las salvajes en Puente San Gil and Ricardo Rodr(')iguez Buded's La madriguera, the dramas studied in the last chapter, serve as additional testimony to a fragmented cosmos. The conclusion consists of a general analysis of the alienated characters which have appeared in the various plays analyzed and their struggle against a world which prevents them from achieving a positive way of life. The dissertation concludes with some general observations concerning the artistic merit of these plays as well as their lasting value. | |
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