THE WOUND OF TIME IN THE THEATER OF PEDRO SALINAS

Resumen

This article studies one of the less well-known literary facets of the Generation of '27 writer Pedro Salinas: his theater. First, a general overview of the most relevant features and reviews of the Sevillian author's production is provided. It is evident he belongs to a literary context characterised by a spirit of renovation that links his dramatic works with those of other playwrights like Unamuno and Valle-Inclan. Secondly, it is argued that Salinas, in his later output, transferred the main concerns he had coped with before the Civil War (already reflected in his poetry) to his theatrical work, thus generating multiple variations in the evolution of his creative process. His dramatic production and trajectory are also reinterpreted and compared through the contrastive analysis of Salinas' work and that of his contemporary, the English author J. B. Priestley. This comparison reveals meaningful similarities in regards to plot and other stylistic devices (for example, the treatment of the narrative time: analepsis and prolepsis, etc.), corroborating definitively the placement of Pedro Salinas oeuvre within the frame of European avant-garde theater. (MTGGF)