Daniel Gallegos y el círculo de la violencia: propuesta para el abordaje del género dramático en el aula
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https://doi.org/10.15359/ree.2004-5.8Abstract
Literature offers its readers infinite possibilities in meaning. It allows them to reconstruct stories and worlds, and to project or imaging themselves in various representations. I also allows them to step away so as to discover the otherness and so that each reader can discover himself.
Literature does not exist to comfort us or to keep a balance. It is otherwise; its purpose is to threaten the reader's balance, to shake him, to move him deeply, and to make him reflect.
This essay has several objectives: 1. to bring us near a Costa Rican writer of broad experience and who has had great influence in the country's theater: Daniel Gallegos; 2. to propose a form of analysis that will help students approach plays more easily and that will promote the reflection among them.
The analysis will be presented with the play El séptimo círculo (The Seventh Circle). This particular piece of writing was chosen because when humankind is immersed in such confusing times as we are now, when we are about to lose faith and hope, we need to stop and thing about the situation. Very complex truths can be found in terrible places and it is art's disturbing function (in this case, the theater) to keep reminding us of that.
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Gallegos, Daniel. ( 1999) La casa y otras obras. Editorial Costa Rica, San José.
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Rojas, Margarita y Flora Ovares. (1993) 100 años de la literatura costarricense. Editorial Norma. San José, Costa Rica.
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