Antonio Buero-Vallejo - Four Tragedies of Conscience, (1949-1999)

Klappentext 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.

Product details

• Authors: Antonio Buero Vallejo, Antonio/ O'Connor Buero Vallejo, Antonio Buero-Vallejo, antonio buero Vallejo
• Assisted by: Patricia O'Connor (Translation), Patricia W. O'Connor (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Oklahoma Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2008
• EAN: 9780870819032
• ISBN: 978-0-87081-903-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: University Press of Colorado
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias