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This study offers a profound study of Arrufat's play, using most recent critical trends concerning the performance aspect of the drama. It examines the genre of the drama and its relationship to the phenomenon of the Cuban Revolution, Arrufat as a Cuban playwright of the 60s and his re-writing of the Greek theme of the fratricidal fight in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes. Also contains a recent interview with Arrufat in which he describes the social circumstances surrounding the play and some of his classical re-writing techniques.

El segle XX va ser, sens dubte, el de les revolucions, i en especial el de la revolució russa. A partir del 1917, els esdeveniments que van tenir lloc a l’antic imperi tsarista van traspassar fronteres i van sacsejar els fonaments de tota mena de societats, independentment de la identitat nacional, el credo religiós, l’estructura econòmica i la forma política. Els fets d’octubre van servir tant de model com de fantasma per combatre, inspirant i encoratjant els conflictes, les reformes, les revolucions i les contrarevolucions del curt segle XX. Amb motiu de la commemoració del...

"Con las armas del talento, la ironía, la síntesis, y el don de la expresión contundente, la frase aguda y la comparación chispeante, Jorge Elías se mueve por todo el continente y avanza y retrocede en el tiempo, por lo cual su mirada se extiende a la corrupción de los noventa en el Perú, al encubrimiento de la prensa estadounidense durante la guerra con Irak, o a la complicidad que en 1980 mostró en la Comisión de Derechos Humanos de la ONU el gobierno de Fidel Castro, el pretendido sucesor de Martí en Cuba, con la dictadura militar argentina." Del prólogo de José Ignacio García ...