Keywords:
proletarian theater, proletarian literature, Spanish Second RepublicAbstract
An overview of proletarian literature in the Spain of the Second Republic is drawn from which derives the new vision proposed by proletarian dramaturgy. The theoretical reflections established by Ramon J. Sender regarding proletarian theater are highlighted, pointing out how Spain is witnessing the appearance of various artistic orientations that try to account for the great debates of the moment. It is in this sense that the variants that we can find in leftist literature and that cover a wide spectrum are analyzed in the article. Within these currents, managing to define what proletarian literature is and what it defends, and specifically proletarian theater, means recognizing the class interests that underlie social literature, proletarian literature, and revolutionary literature. Thus, it would not be a question of narrating what happens, in an exposition of facts, but of understanding in what conditions those events happen. The closer the texts come to this objective, the closer they will be to a clearly revolutionary aesthetic.
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