by Rolf Hochhuth · GRIJALBO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788425308864
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«El vicario» is the play by Rolf Hochhuth, published by Grijalbo in paperback (444 pages, in Spanish).
The drama places Pope Pius XII before the Holocaust and challenges him over his silence in the face of Nazism. Against the reason of state that the pontiff justifies, a young priest demands a public condemnation and argues that the Church will not perish because of a pope's inaction. Documentary theatre that combines theological debate and moral conscience.
Original German title: Der Stellvertreter. Ein christliches Trauerspiel (1963). Translated into Spanish by Agustín Gil.
For readers of epic and historical theatre and for those who wish to delve into the debate on the Catholic Church, power and the Holocaust.
Rolf Hochhuth was a German author and playwright, best known for his 1963 drama The Deputy, which insinuates Pope Pius XII's indifference to Hitler's extermination of the Jews, and he remained a controversial figure both for his plays and other public comments and for his 2005 defense of British Holocaust denier David Irving.
