Subjection or annihilation of the unworthy being: collective cruelty on Divinas Palabras

  • Lucía Cotarelo Esteban Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Keywords: Divinas palabras, Valle-Inclán, Mari-Gaila, Laureano, Cruelty

Abstract

The monstrous Laureano and the adulterous Mari-Gaila become victims of the grotesque and inauthentic group of characters which create the preesperpentic Divinas palabras world –built around an heterotopic set of show business and the dogmatic rural environment-. Applying a trascended perspective of cruelty as both Artaud and Nietzsche did, the moral logic attack these human degradation representatives: as unworthy beings, outsiders of the categorial framework of normality and decency, they deserve the society sentence. Both the self-repression of this puppet society and the rejection of the animalized human being lead in violence. The femme fatale needs to be subjected; the monster needs to be annihilated.

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Published
2020-07-08
How to Cite
Cotarelo Esteban L. (2020). Subjection or annihilation of the unworthy being: collective cruelty on Divinas Palabras. Talía. Revista de estudios teatrales, 2, 83-89. https://doi.org/10.5209/tret.66271
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Miscelánea