El laberinto de Fernando Arrabal como obra trágica

• Authors: Abdel Hamid Ghalab

Title variants

EN

Fernado Arrabal’s The Labyrinth as a tragic play

• Languages of publication: ES

Abstracts

EN

The study focuses on the similarities between The Labyrinth, by Fernando Arrabal, and tragic plays. We begin with the description of the tragic classicist concept and then move on to the Renaissance humanists and commentators on the classics. Analyzing the work we have found that in The Labyrinth there are many features that turned the play into a tragedy of a modern character. It is observed that the author raises important issues to highlight the complexity of a dramatic conflict that exists in the work between the protagonist and other dramatic forces. Finally, we note that Arrabal exposes the reality as an a powerful and totalitarian system, which seems like a stifling atmosphere, unexplained and uncontrolled repression. In addition, the biographical element characterizes a concept of the human being which includes conscious and unconscious aspects, obsessions and dreams.

Keywords

EN

Spanish contemporary theatre; tragedy; Fernando Arrabal; The Labyrinth

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Estudios Hispánicos
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 21
• Pages: 61 - 73

Contributors

author

Abdel Hamid Ghalab

• Universidad de Minia