The Search for Authentic Man in <em>As Mãos de Eurídice</em>
1984; University of California, Los Angeles; Volume: 13; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5070/m3132013732
ISSN0160-2764
Autores Tópico(s)Literature, Culture, and Criticism
ResumoPedro Bloch's As Mãos de Eurídice, presented over fifteen thousand times since its 1950 premiere in Rio, has been a veritable blockbuster.Considered to be Bloch's masterpiece,^it won the Brazilian Academy's first theater prize, the Prémio Artur Azevedo.Several of its interpreters have received the best-actor awards for its performance, among them Rodolfo Mayer in Brazil and Enrique Guitart in Spain, where, by 1953, the play had been performed over one thousand times.În my opinión, the play does not owe its astonishing success to the plot, which, once unravelled, turns out to be quite weak and ali too common.Having deserted his children and Dulce, his wife, for Eurídice, seven years earlier, Gumercindo Tavares da Silva now returns home.His romantic odyssey has left him a total wreck, a victim of poverty, anxiety and defeat.The sight of the house and the resistance of the
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