Written in 1964, then banned and only staged in Spain 12 years later after Franco's death. Buero's powerful play, La doble historia del Doctor Valmy, tackles the controversial question of political torture.Daniel Barnes is a family man who works as a member of the Political Police in an imaginary country called Surelia. Ordered by his superior to torture a political prisoner, Daniel becomes sexually impotent. After a visit to Dr Valmy, Daniel discovers that his condition is a self-punishment for what he has done to the prisoner. Mary, Daniel's wife, gradually becomes aware of the secrets of her husband's grisly trade and attempts to persuade him to leave the police service, with devastating results. The play focuses not on the victim but on the torturer and the consequences of his actions for his family, marriage and personal relations.This is a new edition of one of Buero's most successful and most provocative texts and contains a detailed and wide-ranging introduction, bibliography, notes and a plot summary in English. A helpful vocabulary and variety of work topics makes this an ideal edition for sixth form and undergraduate students.

LA Doble Historia Del Doctor Valmy

Literature & Fiction

Buero-Vallejo, Antonio

History & Criticism

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

El Tragaluz: Experimento

History

Middle East

Scribner

Antonio Buero Vallejo nacio en Guadalajara en 1916 y murio en Madrid en 2000. En 1933 ingreso en la Escuela de Bellas Artes de Madrid, pero su vocacion pictorica fue cortada por la guerra civil de 19361939. Dedicado a la soledad, al pensamiento y a la lectura durante muchos anos, afloro su vena dramatica para bien de las letras espanolas. Introvertido y de poderosa inteligencia, Buero Vallejo es un magnifico lector, alerta y profundo, a cuya curiosidad nada es ajeno. Su tema y problema es el de la desvalida criatura humana en un tiempo critico: el hombre en busca de la libertad por caminos de conocimiento y amor. Buero Vallejo ha sabido igualar vida y pensamiento, conducta y predica. De su lucidez y de su ejemplaridad, de su trabajo, ha surgido el teatro de mas altura, tension y trascendencia de la posguerra espanola. Con Historia de una escalera, hito en la recuperacion teatral de Espana, gano en 1949 el premio Lope de Vega. En 1972 ingreso en la Real Academia Espanola. En 1986 recibio el premio Cervantes y en 1996 en Nacional de las Letras, siendo la primera vez que este premio se concede a un autor exclusivamente dramatico.

Historia De Una Escalera (Spanish Edition)

Macmillan Coll Div

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El tragaluz: Experimento en dos partes (Spanish Edition)

LA Doble Historia Del Doctor Valmy (Hispanic Texts)

Manchester Univ Pr

This masterful translation of four tragedies by Antonio Buero-Vallejo (1916 -2000), Spain 's most important dramatist since the 1930s, will allow English-speaking audiences to experience the most deeply moving and intellectually rich works of one of the twentieth-century 's great authors. Patricia W. O'Connor complements vivid translations with generous supporting materials, including a reader-friendly introduction to the playwright's life and work, commentaries on the plays, and photographs of productions and playwright.
Buero-Vallejo's emblematic first play, Story of a Stairway (1949), chronicling decades in the lives of struggling Madrid families, catapulted the young author into prominence. Appearing here for the first time in English, Before Dawn (1953) is a whodunit and the riveting odyssey of one woman 's search for truth that recalls Greek tragedy. The Basement Window (1967), an Orwellian science-fiction experiment, portrays the moral climate of the late twentieth century as judged by ethically enlightened researchers of a distant future. In the first English translation of the author's poignantly relevant final play, Mission to the Deserted Village (1999), a wartime attempt to save an El Greco painting raises questions about how much of its own treasure a culture will destroy to keep it out of enemy hands.
Readers who know Buero-Vallejo's plays will celebrate O'Connor 's sparkling translations. Those who haven't yet read Buero-Vallejo will find a very moving introduction in this collection.

Antonio Buero-Vallejo: Four Tragedies of Conscience

Dramas & Plays

University Press of Colorado

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Las Meninas: A Fantasia in Two Parts

World Literature

Trinity University Press

Part of the Bristol Classical Press series of Spanish texts, this is Buero Vallejo's play "El Tragaluz". The series is designed to meet the needs of the fast-growing A Level and undergraduate market for texts in the Spanish language. Each text comes with English notes and vocabulary, and with an introduction by an editor with an expert knowledge both of the work and of its literary and cultural context. Set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, this play occupies an important place in Buero Vallejo's theatre incorporating earlier metaphysical preoccupations with a later historical and political dimension.

Vallejo: El Tragaluz (Spanish Texts)

Vallejo, Buero

Bristol Classical Press

In spite of the Franco regime censorship, and after an initial almost total purge that meant exile to many of the top intellectuals and artists, the evolutionary process of peninsular Spanish art and culture did not stop to a complete standstill. During the 40's and 50's a renewal movement took place, and the three playwrights and their plays included in this volume were of utmost importance to it. The case of Arrabal, premiered outside the Spanish borders and in French, though most of his production was conceived and written initially in Spanish, is a perfect example of how Spanish literature kept its liveliness, even in exile. These three plays also share the fact of being tragedies, a very uncommon characteristic in Spanish theatre, specially so during the years in which comedy ruled as a very convenient way of escaping the dramatic socio-political surrounding reality. The renewal impulse in Spanish theatre started in 1945. That year the «Arte Nuevo» group was established, and in 1949 «Teatro de Vanguardia. 15 obras de Arte Nuevo» was published. Avant garde theatre! New Art! during the 40's in Franco's Spain! The renewed and open-minded theatrical context that emerged in the stifled climate of the Franco Spain of the 40's, the so called «black decade», is noticeably present in these plays of the Antonio Buero Vallejo, Alfonso Sastre and Fernando Arrabal production. Sastre, as well as Arrabal and Buero Vallejo were imprisoned by the regime, and these plays reflect their respective biographical projections. This volume gathers these authors' different styles and playwriting -very often clashing- but whose common constant is the linking of the Spanish theatre with the international drama tendencies. Along his introduction professor Victor Fuentes develops a schematic analysis of the Buero Vallejo, Sastre and Arrabal achievements through drama experimentation in their respective plays. With this edition we offer the US reader three fundamental plays of the literary, cultural and theatrical Spanish -and universal- memory of more than half a century ago, whilst proposing the deciphering of their present meanings and projections into the future.

Tres Obras Renovadoras del Teatro Español de Posguerra: Historia de Una Escalera, Escuadra Hacia La Muerte, Cementerio de Automoviles (Spanish Edition)

Sastre, Alfonso

Arrabal, Fernando

Stockcero

Historia de una escalera: Drama en tres actos. Spanischer Text mit deutschen Worterklärungen. B1 - B2 (GER)

Reclam Philipp Jun.

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