GOLPE TRAS GOLPE: VIOLENCIAS EN MORIR (UN INSTANTE ANTES DE MORIR) Y LA SANGRE, DE SERGI BELBEL

Abstract

Over the last few decades, we have witnessed how violence in fiction —as much in the television and cinema realm as in the theatre— has considerably multiplied. Sergi Belbel elaborates on various forms of violence and aggressiveness throughout his drama production, particu- larly in his plays Morir (un instante antes de morir) and La sangre. The aim of this article is to systematize the diverse displays of these phenomena in both texts on the basis of the taxonomies proposed by psychiatrist Luis Rojas Marcos in Las semillas de la violencia and biopsychologist John W. Renfrew in Agresión: naturaleza y control with a view to elucidate what types of violence and aggression are more recurrent and to draw conclu- sions on the function they play.