Tutta la vita è un monologo che agli altri risuona come un’eco
Carmen Conde e Katherine Mansfield in El sillón K, di Paula Paz (2025)
Abstract
This article analyses El sillón K (2025) by Paula Paz, a contemporary Spanish play inspired by Carmen Conde’s epistolary dialogue with Katherine Mansfield. Addressed to Mansfield after the writer’s death, Conde’s letters constitute a one-sided correspondence that stages a literary dialogue across absence and time. Drawing on a collage of sources, languages and media, the play reconfigures this epistolary material into a multilingual theatrical space. The study investigates how the staging reactivates Conde’s modernist poetics and her reflections on immortality, absence and dialogue with the dead, transforming the epistolary exchange into a polyphonic dramaturgy that transcends linguistic and temporal boundaries.
open access | peer reviewed
Submitted: May 28, 2026 | Accepted: July 16, 2026 | Published Oct. 22, 2026 | Language: it
Keywords Katherine Mansfield • Carmen Conde • Contemporary Spanish theatre • El sillón K • Paula Paz
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