El inicio posmoderno de Jerónimo López Mozo: "Los novios o la teoría de los números combinatorios"

Abstract

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In accordance with present daypostmodern artistic expression, Los novios o la teoría de los números combinatorios (1964) illustrates that reality is not a one-dimensional and absolute construction, but rather an unsteady and unstable concept. Using mathematics to achieve his deconstructive objective, Jerónimo López Mozo (b. 1942) breaks with the traditional relationship between cause and effect in order to dramatize the relativity of reality. Challenging the infallibility of Combinatorial Mathematics, considered an exact science of counting based on numerical permutations and combinations, the playwright underscores the inherent instability of the postmodern condition and the inability of conventional means to represent it in spite of how infallible they might be.

Keywords

Jerónimo López Mozo, 20th century Spanish theatre, Postmodernity