Don Juan Tenorio - Softcover

240pp , ABOUT THE AUTHOR :: José Zorrilla y Moral (Valladolid, February 21, 1817 Madrid, January 23, 1893 ) was a poet and playwright español.Cultivó all poetic genres : lyric , epic and dramatic . There in the life of Zorrilla three elements of great interest to understand the orientation of his work. First, the relationship with his father. Man this despotic and severe systematically rejected the love of his son , refusing to forgive his youthful mistakes. The writer carried with him a kind of guilt complex , and to overcome it decided to defend in creating a traditionalist perfect good agreement with the paternal feeling, but in contradiction to his intimate progressive ideas. It says in Memories of old time : "My father had not considered at all my verses : nor my conduct, whose key he had only" . Secondly we must highlight its sensual temperament , dragging him toward women : two wives , an early love with a cousin , loves Paris and Mexico , give a list , though far from that of Don Juan , walks in his same direction. Love is one of the cornerstones of its entire production . It is worth asking, as a third conditioning factor on the health of Zorrilla. At some point in your life , in effect , a double , crazy ( crazy Tales , 1853 ), which appears almost obsessively after it was invented. In Memories of old time , his autobiography , tells of his hallucinations and sleepwalking. When did the brain tumor and how it affected their behavior? Perhaps the predominant role of fantasy in the writer find an explanation for this side. His character has said his biographer Narciso Alonso Cortés was naive as a child , kind and friend to all , ignorant of the value of money and political outsider . It should also emphasize its independence, he was very proud . In verses reminiscent of Antonio Machado , he confessed that his work owed everything , and came to reject lucrative public positions not feel prepared , "I 'm afraid stated in his memoirs of old time that