Adiós, Robinson y otras piezas / Goodbye, Robinson and Other Plays
Theatre , 1984
Alfaguara
Pages: 240
Goodbye, Robinson brings together three short plays and a radio play script that preserve the style of the absurd, sarcasm, and subversion that characterizes Julio Cortázar's work.
This volume compiles Julio Cortázar's plays: Two Word Games (which includes Piece in Three Scenes and Kite Time, both written in the late 1940s and possessing numerous traits of absurd theater mixed with poetry); Nothing to Pehuajó, from the 1970s, probably his most performed play in Argentina and various parts of the world, a text full of sarcasm and ironic skepticism that characterizes much of his work, and finally, Goodbye, Robinson, a radio play script also from the 1970s, his unique adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe's famous novel, notable for its anti-colonial reflections and contemplation on solitude, always with humor as its flag. With this volume, the author once again demonstrates that there is no genre that can escape the unique and characteristic imprint that distinguishes him as one of the great masters of Argentine literature in the 20th century.