El hombre que murió en la guerra, El hombre que yo maté de Rostand Lubitsch y los intertextos de Manuel Machado

Abstract

This paper supports the fact that Manuel Machado’s knowledge of the filmic adaptation of Lubitsch as well as the theatrical version of The man that I killed by Maurice Rostand (which was also reviewed by him) might be one of the most important stimuli to write The man who died in the war. On the other hand, a «Chronicle from Paris», which was written by Manuel Machado in the French trench during the First World War and published in 1919, appears as an intertext in the first play of The man who died in the war. These facts, which were unknown until present, point out that the paternity of The man who died in the war does not exclusively belongs to Antonio Machado, but also to Manuel, who probably impulses the work from the beginning playing a crucial role in its elaboration.