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    A Study Guide for Carlos Solorzano's "Crossroads"
    A Study Guide for Carlos Solorzano's "Crossroads"
    A Study Guide for Carlos Solorzano's "Crossroads"
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    A Study Guide for Carlos Solorzano's "Crossroads"

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    A Study Guide for Carlos Solorzano's "Crossroads," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 12, 2016
    ISBN9781535821315
    A Study Guide for Carlos Solorzano's "Crossroads"

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      A Study Guide for Carlos Solorzano's "Crossroads" - Gale

      09

      Crossroads

      Carlos Solórzano

      1959

      Introduction

      Carlos Solórzano's Cruce de vías (published in Spanish in 1959, translated and published in English as Crossroads in 1993) is one of the playwright's one-act dramas. The action of the play is abstract and symbolic; it concerns a character called the Man, who is waiting for a woman with whom he has engaged in a romantic correspondence. The two have never seen each other and have arranged to finally meet at a railroad crossing. The characters have no names. Their interaction fails to yield a deeper human connection, as the Woman, aging and fearing rejection, refuses to reveal herself to the Man. The Man believes he is waiting for someone much younger. The other characters in the play include the vague Flagman and several individuals dressed in gray who collectively form the Train. Through these characters, Solórzano explores the universal themes of longing, fear, and hopelessness. The stage directions describe the stage as sparsely decorated and darkened, and indicate that the characters are moving unnaturally, mechanically. Such elements, combined with the symbolic nature of the characters, shroud Crossroads in an abstractionism (pertaining to ideas rather than realistic events) that marks the play as representative of the avant-garde (experimental) school of drama, with which Solórzano has identified himself.

      Originally published in Spanish in 1959 by Mexican publisher El Unicórnio, Cruce de vías was translated into English by Francesca Colecchia and published by Associated University Presses in Crossroads and Other Plays by Carlos Solórzano in 1993.

      Author Biography

      Born May 1, 1922, in San Marcos, Guatemala, Solórzano grew up in a wealthy, prestigious family. His father, José María Solórzano, was an engineer and a coffee farmer. His mother, Elisa Fernández Barrios, divorced José Solórzano but devoted herself to her six children, of which Carlos was the youngest. His great grandfather, Justo Rufino Barrios, was president of Guatemala from 1871-1888. As a young boy, Solórzano was educated at home by German tutors. He later attended a Marist

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