![]() After being released he wrote Story of a Stairway in 1949. ![]() After the war he was imprisoned for six years. During the civil war, he served as a medical aid in the Republican army. From 1971 until his death he was a member of the Real Academia Española.įrom 1934 to 1936 Vallejo studied art and painting at San Fernando Escuela de Arte, in Madrid. During his career he won three National Theatre Prizes (in 1957, 1958 & 1959), a National Theatre Prize for all his career in 1980, the National Literature Prize in 1996, and the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, Spain's highest literary honour, in 1986. The other involves the tension of the visionary, the yearning for "light" and the belief in it which occasionally distinguishes the people of genuine religious feelings facing the material interests of the majority.Īntonio Buero Vallejo was a Spanish playwright considered the most important Spanish dramatist of the Spanish Civil War. ![]() One is the social relationship, a mixture of free and forced situations, which arestablished between a strong individuality whose reasoning and frustration conflict with the reasoning and passion of the community. ![]() Two aspects are set down as intentionally dominant within the plan of Buero Vallejo's work. Accordingly, the play must be understood as a sketch of the tragedy of man and his destiny, a problem which again is acquiring legitimacy and urgency, outstepping from the serious Spanish theatre studies into the surrounding reality. In the author's own words his play "aims to set down within a realistic framework, so necessary to the theatre, a nucleus of problems and passions involving man in general, and not blind people in particular." The physical blindness of the depicted characters is only a motive or pretext for presenting the limitations we all share as human beings. ![]()
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