SOURCE: Podol, Peter L. “Reality Perception and Stage Setting in Griselda Gámbaro's Las paredes and Antonio Buero Vallejo's La fundación.” Modern Drama XXIV, no. 1 (March 1981): 44-53.

In the following essay, Podol considers the relationship between the stage settings and the portrayal of reality in La fundación and Griselda Gámbaro's Las paredes.

In his introduction to the book Encounter with Reality, John Horrocks makes the following observation: “To a large degree, man can control reality—even as he can create, he can destroy, and sometimes he is defenseless, and reality can be imposed upon him. But of all man's activities, the struggle to come to terms with reality is at the apex of his experience.”¹ Human nature is such that the confrontation of reality, under any conditions, is never an exact replication of the environment, but rather an individual process of rearrangement and modulation.² And...