References
- Herzberger , David . 1985 . The Painterly Vision of Buero Vallejo's El sueno de la razon' . Symposium , XXXIX ( 2 ) : 100
- Nicholas , Robert . 1988 . 'History as Image and Sound: Three Plays of Antonio Buero Vallejo' . Estreno , XIV ( 1 ) : 14
- Vallejo , Antonio Buero . 1990 . El tragaluz. El sueño de la razón , 139 Madrid : Espasa-Calpe . All references to the drama will be taken from this edition and will appear in the body of the text
- Halsey , Martha and Zatlin , Phyllis , eds. 1988 . “ 'Antonio Buero Vallejo: Stages, Illusions and Hallucinations' ” . In The Contemporary Spanish Theater: A Collection of Critical Essays , 30 Lanham , Md. : Univ. Press of America . Robert Nicholas goes one step further to consider the possibility that art and imagination are in fact more powerful than their creator. He says: '…the art object or process may have a reality independent of the artist (of life); it may, in fact, determine the artist's very existence. … the protagonist's involuntary visions and premonitions terrify him not only because he cannot control them, but because they seem to be able to control him'
- 1991 . 'Monster in the Mirror' . Estreno , XVII ( 2 ) : 42 Richard Rotero perceives courage--in the form of Goya's artwork--as the force with which the painter is able to fight against that which he fears. He says of Goya: 'Courage, as active defiance in the face of fear, is the victor in his art'