(DOWNLOAD) "Guernica on Stage: Examples by Fernando Arrabal and Jeronimo Lopez Mozo" by Anales de la Literatura Espanola Contemporanea * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Guernica on Stage: Examples by Fernando Arrabal and Jeronimo Lopez Mozo
- Author : Anales de la Literatura Espanola Contemporanea
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 100 KB
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When the town of Gernika, the ancient capital of the Basque people, was destroyed by the German air force on April 26, 1937, the officer in charge of the attack, Wolfram von Richthofen, and his entourage were watching from a nearby mountain (Chipp 30). As is well known, an underlying interest of this assault, and, in general, of German participation on the side of the Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War, was to test new technologies of warfare. Von Richthofen and the audience gathered on Monte Oiz witnessed the staging of the first blitzkrieg style of intense bombing that would become central to Nazi strategy during WWII. The destruction of Gernika, from its first horrific moments, was a theatricalized event in which the largely civilian victims were unwitting actors. (1) In his "Gernika y el Guernica en el teatro," Pedro Barea lists numerous poems, essays, multimedial and performance pieces, and, of concern in this essay, ten theater productions that respond to the bombing of Gernika. Claiming that the destroyed town has achieved symbolic reference as the "barbarie de la Guerra," (2) Barea holds Pablo Picasso's Guernica largely responsible for the symbolic register that Gernika has acquired. Indeed, almost all of the theater productions incorporate images from the painting.