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A 6 page research paper/essay that contrasts and compares a play by Xavier Villaurrutia with an Italian play that highly influenced the famous Mexican playwright. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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art and literature the cultural agents of politics (Mojica 111). His work had a tremendous influence on Octavia Paz. Paz met Villaurrutia in Mexico in the 1930s at a point
where Villaurrutia was an established poet and an influential figure in the "Contemporaneos" group while Paz was a promising newcomer (Mojica 111). Paz considers some of Villaurrutias poetry to be
the author of "some fifteen or twenty poems...(that) count among the best poems in our language and of our time" (Anonymous 69). Of Villaurrutia, Paz also writes that he was
"always preoccupied by the opposition between Classicism and Romanticism...the opposition between was his conflict, his drama" (Mojica 111). This orientation can be seen throughout Villaurrutias plays. One of Villaurrutias
concerns was to reduce Mexican theatres insularity. Therefore, he translated and staged a number of American, French and Italian plays in the period following World War I (Xavier...ausente). Among
these productions was a 1940 translation and production of Luigi Pirandellos La vita che ti diedi, a play which focuses on DonnAnna, a mother who desperately believes her son to
still be alive (Xavier...ausente). Soon after completing his translation of this play, Villaurrutia began work on one of his own plays - El ausente - which bears several structural similarities
to Pirandellos play. Villaurrutia was obviously interested in the Italian playwrights concepts and this preoccupation becomes clear when La vita che ti diedi and Villaurrutias El ausente are compared (Xavier...ausente).
In both plays, the audience is presented with the concept that reality is both individual and psychological (Xavier...ausente). In both plays, the leading characters maintain that their individual perspectives establish
the criteria for what is "real" (Xavier...ausente). In Pirandellos play, DonnAnna believes that her son, Cesarino, is alive and will remain alive as long as she manages to maintain
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