Electra Garrígó: The Barren (and Ridiculous) Dignity of Atreus

Authors

  • Alina Gutiérrez Grova Universidad de La Habana

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.24.1.55-66

Keywords:

Electra Garrigó, Virgilio Piñera, content, language, grotesque

Abstract

In Electra Garrigó (1941), Virgilio Piñera’s dramatic play, the “apparently systematic seriousness disruption”, in which the writer summarized his theatrical ars poetica, is depicted through the incongruence of a low-quality tragic plot and an everincreasing accented tragic language. With this device, an inverted canon is achieved thus preventing the synthesis demanded by the tragedy as genre, that the audience decodes as grotesque.

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Author Biography

Alina Gutiérrez Grova, Universidad de La Habana

Dra. en Ciencias Filológicas. Profesora titular de Lingüística. Facultad de Artes y Letras, Universidad de La Habana.

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Published

2014-04-30

How to Cite

Grova, A. G. (2014). Electra Garrígó: The Barren (and Ridiculous) Dignity of Atreus. Aletria: Revista De Estudos De Literatura, 24(1), 55–66. https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.24.1.55-66

Issue

Vol. 24 No. 1 (2014): Recepção Clássica no Teatro Ibero-Americano

Section

Dossiê - Recepção Clássica no Teatro Íbero-Americano

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