Un hombre de cincuenta años

Those who reach their fifties are usually already initiated into the knowledge of a great secret. After finding out, when he opens the book of life, he reads it in a different way than he had done before, more than thirty years ago, back in his early youth. Although the world is the same before and after, everything has changed forever, because the older reader has learned from experience what awaits him: it is very common that by then he had to watch over the corpse of one of his parents and that it is no longer difficult for him to imagine his own, which awakens a feeling of grief (Inconsolable), tiredness (I want to get tired of you) and melancholy (The tears of Xerxes). In the trilogy gathered here, the protagonist is always an orphan around fifty who, at a certain moment, holds a dialogue with the specter of his deceased father. The works explore this common element through different genres: monologue, moral comedy and tragedy. The first two had already been published, the third is unpublished, and the three meet here for the first time, preceded by the essay 'Dirty Secret'. While philosophy always casts the light of the concept on the mysterious human condition, the theater represents its dark depths without the need to explain them.