Un nuevo tiempo para Electra"Electra al amanecer" de Omar del Carlo
- Maria de Fátima Sousa e Silva (coord.)
- Maria do Céu Grácio Zambujo Fialho (coord.)
- José Luís Lopes Brandão (coord.)
Publisher: Universidade de Coimbra ; Annablume
ISBN: 978-989-26-1297-3
Year of publication: 2016
Pages: 237-250
Type: Book chapter
Sustainable development goals
Abstract
In 1948 Omar del Carlo wrote his "Electra at Dawn" in Buenos Aires. The author sets Dawn as a temporal space that acts as a mandatory feature of the dramatic action as well as a mark of a cyclical time -Dawn after Dawn- without hope for Electra. In fact, Omar del Carlo partly considered Orestes to be the true tragic victim of the facts that eventually made him become a martyr within a Christian atmosphere. Electra, a victim without redemption, keeps her eternal hatred and wrath forever. It is evident that the Argentine author had in mind Sophocles’ Electra, although in the Greek author Electra finds the final satisfaction to a hatred that seemed to be eternal. In Omar del Carlo`s work, Electra suffers the punishment of the unforgiving, for the rest of her life.