by Antonio Buero Vallejo · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467033281
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«Historia de una escalera» is the play by Antonio Buero Vallejo, published by Austral in paperback (160 pages, in Spanish).
The play portrays the lives of several humble families who share a communal staircase. Over the years, their characters pursue dreams of prosperity and affection that clash with the constraints of their surroundings. The landing becomes a symbol of everyday life, with its renunciations, hypocrisies and gestures of dignity.
It belongs to the Contemporánea collection, where it is volume 1. The play premiered in 1949 and won the Lope de Vega Prize.
A common reading in secondary education and a gateway to post-war Spanish theatre and the work of Buero Vallejo.
Antonio Buero Vallejo was a Spanish playwright associated with the Generation of '36 movement and considered the most important Spanish dramatist of the Spanish Civil War.
