Rosa Montero Presents Herself in the Viennese Scene: From the ‘Iliad’ and Simone Weil to the War Apocalypse

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The libretto of The day before recalls in the first moment the existentialist allegory that Dino Buzzati imagined in The desert of the Tatars, or even the theater of the absurdity of Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett, with the plot anchored on the eve and the protagonists waiting. But Rosa Montero liquidates from a plume any allegorical illusion: “The day before the Third World War, the war apocalypse, which is where we are”, explains by tele…