Edipo asesor de Benjamín Galemiri: Hacia una dramaturgia de la transición

Abstract

Few authors have explored the effects of the past dictatorship with such thoroughness than the Chilean prolific playwright Benjamín Galemiri. In this article, we are dealing with his Edipo Asesor (2000) as a “transitional period” piece navigating among conditional forgetfulness of things past, the astounding affirmation of a way of life firmly entrenched in the most rampant neoliberalism, and the emergence of a collective consciousness activated from the potential expansion of power as a democratic space. It is, however, through the role of the new technocrats, brought about by the innovative and media-oriented neoliberal ideology, that Galimiri’s Asesor becomes a paradigmatic figure in his efforts to conflate opportunism with “national interests,” and mercantilist pragmatic views with the undeniable quest for glory, fame and possibly love. (BJR, Article in Spanish)