Remanences of Hellenistic Culture in a Dramatic Text by Arturo Clavijo Tisseur

Abstract

The study of remanences Greco-Roman cultural tradition in works of Santiago de Cuba literature from the colonial era to the present Republican era is a topic of attention from the most contemporary literary research in the region. From this epistemological approach, revisit texts and authors who are part of the patrimonial heritage in Santiago de Cuba, at present, little known or forgotten, can elucidate how the ideo-aesthetic components of the classical tradition has survived in the collective cultural imagination through times. Such is the case of the work of Arturo Clavijo Tisseur, poet, journalist, novelist and playwright, whose imprint has not been studied in detail. This paper therefore offers an analysis of the remanences of Hellenistic culture on the play El Arte entre sudarios (The art between shrouds), the first of the dramatic texts of this author, published in Santiago de Cuba in 1922.