Buero Vallejo’s Theatre (1949-1977)

The Author: Susan Willis-Altamirano was born in 1958 in a district of Greater London. She obtained a B.A. in European Studies, majoring in French and Spanish from the University of Bath, Avon in 1980. During the course of her studies, she spent one year in France at the University of Limoges. She later moved to Germany and obtained her «Magister Artium» in French, Spanish and English and her Ph.D. in General and Comparative Literature from the Freie Universität Berlin. Since 1987 she has been tutoring in adults in various languages, learning methods, communication and literature.

Contents : Buero Vallejo and his age - The motifs of prison, totalitarianism, and "huis clos" in Buero's early plays - From light to enlightenment and from vision to reform: Un soñador para un pueblo and El concierto de San Ovidio - Committed art. The rebellion of the artist against absolutism and totalitarianism: Las meninas and El sueño de la razón - Death and triumph of art: La detonación (1977) - Conclusion.