Teatro Completo

by Virgilio Piñera

Teatro completo de virgilio pinera,la habana,ediciones R.1960,primera edicion,ilustrada,en muy buen estado,Virgilio Piñera Llera (Cárdenas, 1912 - La Habana, 1979). Poeta, narrador y dramaturgo cubano considerado uno de los autores más originales de la literatura de la isla. Se estableció en La Habana en 1938. En 1940 obtuvo el título de Doctor en Filosofía y Letras en la Universidad de La Habana. Fundó y dirigió la revista Poeta (1942). Viajó por toda América Latina, Estados Unidos y Europa. Colaborador en Espuela de Plata, Grafos, Clavileño, Ultra, Orígenes, Gaceta del Caribe, Lyceum, Universidad de la Habana, Lunes de Revolución, La Gaceta de Cuba, Unión. En Buenos Aires, Argentina trabajó como funcionario del consulado cubano, como corrector de pruebas y más tarde como traductor de la editorial Argos, colaboró en Sur, Hoy, Realidad, Mundo Argentino y Anales de Buenos Aires. Colaboró, además, en Lettres Nouvelles y en Les Temps Modernes, de París. Con José Rodríguez Feo fundó Ciclón en 1955. Fue director de Ediciones R. Es autor de la selección y las notas de Teatro del absurdo, En 1948 estrena Electra Garrigó, reducción del mito griego a nivel de parodia y choteo. La obra en el momento de su solitario estreno, provocó polémicas y protestas, pero con los años se ha convertido en un punto de referencia. Aire frío, su mejor pieza, se representa en 1962, pero ya estaba escrita cuatro años antes. La extensa obra, de corte autobiográfico, narra la historia de una familia que se niega a proletarizarse, y vive en un mundo de valores que desaparece. El drama ilustra la crisis de la familia a los largo de dieciocho años. Otras obras de Piñera fueron Fasa alarma (1948), Jesús (1950), La boda (1958), El flaco y el gordo (1959), El filántropo (1960), y Dos viejos pánicos, premio Casa de las Américas 1967.

682 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Virgilio Piñera Llera was a Cuban author, playwright, poet, short-story writer, and essayist.
Among his most famous poems are "La isla en peso" (1943), and "La gran puta" (1960). He was a member of the "Origenes" literary group, although he often differed with the conservative views of the group. In the late 1950s he co-founded the literary journal Ciclón. Following a long exile in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Piñera returned to Cuba in 1958, months before Fidel Castro took power.
His work includes essays on literature and literary criticism, several collections of short stories compiled under the title of Cold Tales, a great number of dramatic works, and three novels: La carne de René (Rene's Flesh), Presiones y Diamantes (Pressures and Diamonds), and Las pequeñas maniobras (Small manoeuvres). His work is seen today as a model by new generations of Cuban and Latin American writers. Some believe that his work influenced that of Reinaldo Arenas, who wrote in his memoir Before Night Falls of Piñera's time in Argentina and friendship there with Witold Gombrowicz.
The magazine Unión posthumously published autobiographical writing by Piñera in which he discussed how he concluded he was gay. However, his work can not be reduced to his open discussions on homosexuality in a time when such a topic was taboo, especially in the Spanish Caribbean. Piñera's literary and cultural perspective went beyond sexuality, to express concerns on national and continental identity, philosophical approaches to theater, writing and politics. This focus drew fire from the Spanish American literary establishment of his time, including Cuban poets Cintio Vitier and Roberto Fernandez Retamar, and leaders like Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.
Due to Piñera's social points of view and especially to his homosexuality, he was censured by the revolution, and died without any official recognition. As more of his work has been translated into English, Piñera's work has been rediscovered by American academia as a testimony of 20th century resistance against totalitarian systems.