19:13 • 24 ene. 2022
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updated at 21:31 • 24 one. 2022
With only 58 years of age and surprisingly, the professor at the University of Almería César de Vicente Hernando, an expert in Literature and specialized in political theater theory, died on Friday 21 of natural causes. The death occurred during the morning, while he was alone, working in his office at the UAL, and when he was discovered nothing could be done for him, which caused a deep impact among his fellow teachers, his students and the rest of the university staff.
César de Vicente, a native of Madrid, was a doctor in Hispanic Philology and is currently taught in the Area of Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature of the UAL, within the Department of Philology, where he obtained a place two years ago. Being a teacher was just one of his varied facets, among which were also that of researcher, essayist, stage director and theater entertainer. He was director of the Center for Critical Documentation and before arriving at the University of Almería he had also been a professor at the Autonomous and Complutense universities.
As a committed Marxist intellectual, his was a life linked to literature and politics. Rather, to the relationship between the two. César de Vicente is considered an expert in political theater. Among his numerous publications are the essays Günther Anders, fragments of the world (2011), The founding scene. Theory and practice of political theater (2013) and political drama. Poetics of Political Theater (2018). His capacity for work, his enormous intellectual contribution to a theory of literature linked to social events and politics, as well as his contribution to rescuing little-known playwrights have been traits of César de Vicente’s personality and career highlighted by others. intellectuals after hearing the news of his death. His personal commitment was also manifested in the active participation in neighborhood movements of which he was a part, as they have recalled these days
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