La tragedia hoy: dos reescrituras contemporáneas del mito de Antígona

Abstract

The still hot question of whether tragedy is possible today is discussed by great critics such as George Steiner [1963] and Albin Lesky [1957] with positions that do not fully coincide. We will compare here their proposals, and to this end we will analyse from both perspectives two contemporary rewritings of the myth of Antigone: Antigone [1942] by the French playwright Jean Anouilh and La tumba de Antigona [The Tomb of Antigone, 1967] by the Spanish philosopher and writer Maria Zambrano, which, as we shall see, maintain a dissimilar intertextual relationship with Sophocles’ Antigone.