La libertad en Buero Vallejo
Abstract
After an adolescence filled with the trauma of the Civil War, the seven years spent in prison left a lifelong imprint on Antonio Buero Vallejo’s character that manifests itself through his theater. The blind people of En la ardiente oscuridad and the neighbors of Historia de una escalera are also captives of their own symbolic prisons. These prisoners, who represent all of us, are ruthlessly condemned and only a complete awareness of their lucidly accepted condition can make them free. Only this kind of internal freedom can be the foundation for the ethical dignity that is always present in Buero’s plays: and encapsulated within this dignity is the permanent sense of hope that lies at the heart of his tragedies.
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