{"id":7854,"date":"2021-08-10T07:56:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T07:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/obra-literaria\/when-five-years-pass\/"},"modified":"2021-10-20T09:08:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T09:08:15","slug":"when-five-years-pass","status":"publish","type":"obra_literaria","link":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/obra-literaria\/when-five-years-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Five Years Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-two unfolded characters, anguished by time, frustration, love, inner journey, sterility and death inhabit <em>As\u00ed que pasen cinco a\u00f1os<\/em> (<em>Once\u00a0Five Years Pass. Legend of time in three acts and five paintings).<\/em>\u00a0The Young Man, the protagonist, represents all that and the other characters symbolize it, Lorca explains about the theme of his play in 1933. He adds, &#8220;It is a mystery, within the characteristics of this genre, a mystery about time, written in prose and verse.&#8221; <strong>Time destroys everything: &#8220;Sobre la misma columna [On the same column] \/ abrazados sue\u00f1o y tiempo [embraced dream and time], \/cruza el gemido del ni\u00f1o [crosses the moan of the child], \/ la lengua rota del viejo [the broken tongue of the old man].&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Typist declares her love to a Young Man who does not reciprocate because he is waiting for his absent girlfriend to return. Five years later he goes to meet her and discovers that his girlfriend has eloped with a rugby player. He then remembers the love of the Typist, but when he goes to look for her she asks him to wait five years for her to marry him. He returns home and after a game of cards with some players who appear, <strong>he loses the ace of hearts and with it his life. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All this, in three acts where strange situations and very different characters appear, symbolic and creating an atmosphere of delirium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7473,"template":"","genero_obra_literaria":[102],"class_list":["post-7854","obra_literaria","type-obra_literaria","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","genero_obra_literaria-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obra_literaria\/7854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obra_literaria"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/obra_literaria"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"genero_obra_literaria","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genero_obra_literaria?post=7854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}