Etiqueta: Exile
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Thief of Roses ( Ladrona de Rosas)
Clarice Lispector: a hidden identity, an unbearable genius. Clarice Lispector has always been perceived as a shy and introverted woman. Her beauty was indisputable: she was gorgeous, elegant and had refined manners. However, Lispector hid a lot about herself: for instance, her real name, since it was not Clarice, nor her birthdate was the one…
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Final Exorcism (Exorcismo final)
Final Exorcism is the first volume of erotic stories by Yovana Martinez. The life of a woman is narrated from her adolescence to her middle age through her sexual experiences. The story begins the day she loses her virginity in a Cuban internee. Short tales chronologically in first person alongside a very direct, colloquial and…
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Mom (Mamá)
A woman from the poor Spanish countryside sends her 15-year-old daughter to Argentina during the Peronist years. She wants to save her from her misery and promises her that the whole family will follow her. Something goes wrong though, and no one comes: the girl is left trapped in a hostile country, where she grows up,…
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Queen Juana (Reina Juana)
The plot starts with the confession of Juana I of Castilla with the father Francisco de Borja the night before she dies. From there, the monarch goes out to the most important moments of her life, while in her speech takes the viewer to travel over the History of Spain. In this great flashback the…
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Back to Front (De atrás para adelante)
The Goldberg family is going through an economic crisis, their factory and house have been seized. All that Simon Goldberg, the patriarch, has built is now reduced to nothing. In this situation, his daughter Mariana asks her brother Javier for help. Javier was kicked out of the family years ago, for his sexual orientation, and…
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School Boys (Los chicos de la escuela)
In a small town, the school teacher confronts the town’s cacique, Juan Antonio. This last one obliges the teacher to leave the location, which causes a series of complex conflicts. THEMES: Education, Inequality, Revenge, Countryside life, Corruption, Frustration, Rivalry, Society GENRE: Dramedy RELEVANT FACTS: The play was made into a movie in Spain in…
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Father Cigarette (El padre pitillo)
Don Froilán is a priest in a small village, in which he is known as “Father Cigarette”, as he always has a lit cigarette in his mouth. Given his good-natured disposition, he sees himself one day taking in a deviant girl called Rosita, kicked from her house by his step-father Aniceto after losing her honor…
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Don Quintín, the bitter one (Don Quintín el amargao o el que siembra vientos)
Don Quintin, driven by jealousy, kicked out his daughter Teresa’s mother. Doubting about his paternity, he left the girl for adoption and lives now his life with a bitter taste. After some time, his wife dies ratifying in her last will that Don Quintin is Teresa’s father. When Quintin looks for Teresa he does not…
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A Dreamer for the People (Un soñador para un pueblo)
The story is set in the Spanish 18th century, recreating Esquilache´s riot. The plot is centered on Marquis Esquilache, one of Carlos III’s ministers. Esquilache is a minister with an advanced ideology in tune with the Enlighten movement. He forwards a law that provokes some anxiety among the people of the country: a riot against…
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Lost city (La ciudad perdida)
Joaquim, an exile from the Civil War, wins a literary contest from his home town with a novel titled The Lost City. The town decides to bring him back as a citizen. Rafael, who also participated in the contest in which he ended up as a finalist, is a literature professor as well as a…
