Chapter Odio y venganza en La persistencia de Griselda Gambaro
Abstract
Griselda Gambaro's La Persistencia is one of the Argentine author's most difficult works. In it, she reconstructs a historical event, the school massacre in Beslan, North Ossetia, in 2004, which claimed more than three hundred victims, mostly children. Bringing violence to the stage is not in itself a new fact; it is, however, a matter of recreating an event that really happened in its historical context, trying to expose the reasons that made it possible and the motives that triggered such extreme violence, leaving the judgement to the reader or the spectator.
Keywords
Griselda Gambaro; Contemporary Argentine theatre; Beslan's massacre; theory of reception; violenceDOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0278-7.06ISBN
9791221502787, 9791221502787Publisher
Firenze University PressPublisher website
https://www.fupress.com/Publication date and place
Florence, 2023Imprint
USiena PressSeries
Studi di letterature moderne e comparate, 3Classification
Theatre studies