Dossier de Prensa, Sobre la muerte de Buero Vallejo
(Spain): Ca. 2000. Wraps. 8.5 x 11, spiral bound with acetate cover (slightly creased), with well over 200 photocopied pages of articles from journals, newspapers, magazines and books reporting on the death of Antonio Buero Vallejo (1916-2000), the greatest Spanish playwright of the Generation of '36. Enclosed is a letter from his son (?) Carlos Buero to Martha Halsey (d. 2020), perhaps the foremost American scholar on the works and life of Buero Vallejo. The letter, in a rough English translation, reads, "Sorry for my delay in replying to your affectionate letter, but I wanted to include the dossier that you have in your hands and that it occurred to us to prepare when some friends abroad asked us to send them copies of what appeared in the press. Thus, we are sending it to all those people who have had a close relationship with my father but do not reside in Spain, both as a gift to them for their friendship, and as an intimate form of tribute to him. I hope it is able to convey the atmosphere of those days. For our part, we are doing quite well, although still under some duress. My mother is now in Barcelona, working, we'll see when she finishes the play she's working on. Until now, days have been very busy, many proposals for tributes and Buero Vallejo Cultural Foundations and we will see how they end up, settling things with the Treasury, the lawyers, the Society of Authors, all of that. Really, I'm looking forward to things settling down a bit, even if that's when the real challenges come. But mourning is also something beautiful when death came between the warmth of your loved ones and after a full life professionally and personally. I think that the most tender memories I will keep of my father will be those of those months of illness when he, already very worn out, needed help for everything and we had to be constantly taking care of him. And, although it may move you, it is worth dedicating yourself to evoking that tenderness in the memory." (Letter has some wear along its right side). This appears to be a book that Buero and his mother compiled and sent to a handful of interested parties; Worldcat locates no holdings for this. Very good. Item #H30188
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