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Virgilio Piñera

Personal information
Surname: Piñera
First name: Virgilio
Born: 4 August 1912, Havana, Cuba
Died: 18 October 1979
Biography

‘Born in Cuba in 1912, Virgilio Piñera was a prolific playwright, poet, novelist, essayist and short story writer. Famed for a sharp wit and an acid tongue, he was a polemicist who snip... (Read more...)

Themes

‘Piñera’s work is funny, satirical and frequently outrageous. Written between 1945 and 1969 he is concerned by the illogical plight of the individual condemned to play out meaningless ... (Read more...)

Style

Piñera’s style can be identified as absurdist. The premise of many of his plays rests on an abstract question of logic which the characters are destined to wrestle with.

However, Piñei... (Read more...)

Plays in the database

Entry written by Gwendolen Mackeith. Last updated on 18 June 2012.

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