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The Impostor
by Rodolfo Usigli
2005 · 132 pages
A failed history professor hoping to advance his career tries to capitalize on his extensive knowledge of the Mexican Revolution and its leaders in this play, which enjoyed enormously popular success after its 1948 publication and continues to attract contemporary audiences. El gesticulador (The Impostor) is regarded by literary historians as the play that signaled the start of modern Mexican drama. Set in 1930s post-revolutionary Mexico, its basic ingredients are history and myth, honesty and duplicity, truth and falsehood as well as political intrigue, corruption, party politics and the soci…
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