La Doble Historia del Doctor Valmy [Spanish]

by Antonio Buero Vallejo

Book Overview

Written in 1964, then banned and only staged in Spain 12 years later after Franco's death, Buero's powerful play tackles the controversial question of political torture. Daniel Barnes is a family man who works as a member of the Political Police in an imaginary country called Surelia. Ordered by his superior to torture a political prisoner, Daniel becomes sexually impotent. After a visit to Dr Valmy, Daniel discovers that his condition is a self-punishment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 0719045495
• ISBN13: 9780719045493
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 175 Pages