
Work as well as that of the Spanish theatre, since some of the great theatrical Important documentary value since it enables us to appreciate a part of Dalí’s They provide a major visual shock in theĬontext of a classic which has been performed a thousand times. The fact that the sets and costumes are the work of Salvador Dalí. Theatrical production”-claims the introduction in the Film Archives-“lies in Long-standing, since during their time at the Students’ Residence in Madrid,īuñuel, Lorca and Dalí used to enjoy performing the work, even modifying theįilming made by Alejandro Perla in 1952 of a stage performance of Joséįor the first time in 1949 by the María Guerrero National Theatre Company,ĭirected by Luis Escobar and Humberto Pérez. Know for certain, but whatever the case, his predilection for it was The roughness of texture which reveals the flavour of the drama”. Uneven tempo are not so much ‘defects’ nowadays-concludes Nieva- but constitute The carelessness, the gaps, the curious superimpositions of images and

Transvestite images of dreams, more accurate in their delineation of primaryįorm of tongue-twister-are incontrovertible proof of an informal deliriumĮxisting within the formal one and the ludic transgression of the serious Verisimilitude’ and a sense to the emblematic character which fully justifies There is in The Tenorio, nonetheless, a closed order, an ‘invented Pre-logical state which the work of art presents to our eyes today. Precept-in other words the clumsiness of the Tenorio-are clear exponents of the Whose dreamlike aspect takes it close to surrealism. Which so many critics, even Zorrilla himself, have described as errors in theįormal and internal composition of the work, that Nieva describes Zorrilla’s Don Juan Tenorio as a “visionary work” It is precisely because of these features Thinking and feeling, were the calligraphy of another language”. Things excited Dalí as much as the theatrical visualisation of Zorrilla’s


Its first premise, the fullness of life, will Don Juan be able to submit”. Only when there exists an ethic which would count, as “Don Juan decides against morality because morality had previously

DON JUAN MYTH AND ZORRILLA’S “TENORIO”: Some Psychoanalytical ReflectionsĬoncerning the Rhetoric(s) of Masculinity.
