Golden Thread and Other Plays (Pan America Series) - Hardcover

Carballido, Emilio

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0292700393 ISBN 13: 9780292700390

Publisher: University of Texas Press, 1970

Synopsis

Emilio Carballido (1925-2008) was one of the most innovative and accomplished of Mexico's playwrights and one of the outstanding creators in the new Latin American theater. By his mid-forties he had already produced an impressive body of works in two very different veins. On the one hand, he mastered the techniques of the "well-made play." On the other, he developed a richly rewarding vein of fantasy, sometimes poetic, sometimes comic, sometimes macabre-and sometimes all three. The plays in this volume are in the latter vein, ranging from surrealist farce in "The Intermediate Zone" to the grotesqueries of "The Time and the Place," from tragicomedy in "Theseus" to the dreamlike permutations of "The Golden Thread." But even at his most fantastic, Carballido never loses his remarkable gift for characterization: his peevish Minotaur, his raffis Nahual (were-jaguar) are wholly believable monsters.

About this title

About the Author:

Margaret Sayers Peden is a distinguished critic and translator of Latin American literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication date: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0292700393
• ISBN 13: 9780292700390
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224