Rodolfo usigli biography wikipedia

There, a professor from Harvard University confuses him for a missing revolutionary hero with the same name. Rubio claims to be the deceased hero, telling the professor that, disillusioned with the course of the Revolution, he had embraced anonymity until thirty years thereafter. The story is published in The New York Times , and Rubio comes to the attention of his compatriots, receiving accolades and fielding offers to run for the governorship of his state against a corrupt Revolutionary general.

Rubio loses himself in his new identity, viewing it as an opportunity to renew the promise of the Revolution. In their conversation, each attempts to blackmail the other. The play was daring for its time in that it used the true language of contemporary politics, a first for Mexican literature. Its debut in the Mexico City 's Palacio de Bellas Artes was welcomed by the theater-going public, but was met with hostility by the Mexican government.

At issue was the play's declaration of the death of the Mexican Revolution in its institutionalization in the Partido Revolucionario Institucional. The government cancelled several performances, and writers were hired to severely criticize the performances that were allowed to go on. The work thus became the only play in Mexican history to be censored by the government.

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Rodolfo Usigli (November 17, –

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