Fernando Arrabal

Fernando Arrabal is a Dramaturge Spanish born the August 11th 1932 with Melilla, Spain. He lives in France since 1955.

He learned how to read and write in Ciudad Rodrigo (Salamanque) (national Price of " surdoué" at the ten years age), and made its academic works in Madrid.

In its childhood he suffered from the mysterious disappearance of his father, condemned to dead then escaped. Because of this traumatism, like wrote the Nobel Prize Vicente Aleixandre, the knowledge which Arrabal brings is tinted of a moral light which lies in the matter even of its art .

It carried out seven feature films. It published a hundred plays, fourteen novels, seven hundred books of poetry, several tests and its famous Lettre with the general Franco of living of the dictator. Its complete theater, is published in many languages. (In France or Spain in two volumes of more than two thousand pages).

He is cofounder of the movement Panique with Roland Topor and Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Transcendent Satrape of the Collège of 'Pataphysique since 1990.

  • a theater insane, brutal, foil, joyeusement provocative. A potlatch dramaturgic where the carcass of our companies " advanced " is carbonized on the festive slope of a permanent revolution. He inherits clearness Kafka and humor of Jarry; he is connected, in his violence, in Sade or Artaud. But it is undoubtedly the only one also far to have pushed derision. Deeply political and joyeusement ludic, revolted and Bohemian, it is the syndrome of our century of barbed wires and goulags: a way of being maintained in deferment . Dictionary of the literatures of French language (editions Bordered).

Price

Although it is one of the most discussed writers of its time, its work is recognized everywhere in the world (Grand Prix of Theater of the French Academy, Prix Nabokov of the novel, Prix Espasa of test, Prix World' Theater etc).

The College of Pataphysique distinguished it by conferring the title to him from " Transcending Satrape" (The equivalent of the Nobel for this College). At the time of the last half-century forty personalities received this distinction, among which: Marcel Duchamp, Eugene Ionesco, Man Ray, Boris Vian, Dario Fo, Umberto Eco, Roland Topor and Jean Baudrillard.

He was the last finalist of the Price Cervantes 2001 thanks to the support of Camilo Jose That. the Magus ensures that he was finalist of the Nobel 2005, price which for the author several institutions and personalities had requested, like Professor Francisco Torres Monreal of the University of Murcie. He saw himself decreed the legion of honor on July 14th, 2005.

Novels

  • Baal Babylon (1959)
  • the burial of the sardine
  • Festival and rites of confusion
  • El mono
  • the tower take guard (" The torre herida por el rayo")
  • the red virgin
  • the girl of King-Kong
  • the tueuse one of the wintergarden
  • Levitation
  • Reported missing.
  • the extravagant crusade of a castrato in love
  • Reported missing
  • Champagne for all

It received the Nadal price of the novel (Spanish equivalent of Goncourt or Pulitzer) in 1982 for the torre herida por el rayo (published in French with the Grasset editions, under the title the tower take guard ).

It also gained the Price Nabokov International.

Poetic work

Books illustrated by Pablo Picasso, El Salvador Dalí, Rene Magritte, Roland Topor, Olivier O. Olivier, Enrico Baj, Antonio Will know, Gustavo Charif etc, among which is detached particularly:
  • Humble paradises
  • stone of the madness

Dramatic work

A hundred plays published in ten nine volumes in the whole world:
  • the Tricycle (1953)
  • Fando and Lis (1955), adapted to the cinema by Alexandro Jodorowsky
  • Guernica (1959)
  • the Bicycle of condemned (1959)
  • the Great Ceremonial (1963)
  • the Architect and the Emperor of Assyrie (1966)
  • the Garden of the delights (1967)
  • the Labyrinth (1967)
  • a named tortoise Dostoiëwsky (1967)
  • red and black Dawn (1968)
  • Bestiality erotic (1968)
  • the Sky and the Shit (1972)
  • the Cemetery of the cars (1959), adapted by itself to the cinema
  • the night is also a sun
  • Jeunes barbarians of today
  • … And they passed from the shackles to the flowers
  • the tower of Babel
  • Inquisition
  • the delights of the flesh
  • the crossing of the empire
  • Love letter (like a Chinese torture)
  • the Architect and the Emperor of Assyrie , one of his dramatic works most important, is a part panics written at the time of one second stage of its life of playwright.

Arrabal is undoubtedly one of the dramatic authors currently most played.

Cinematographic work

  • Viva the muerte (1971)
  • I will go like an insane horse (1973)
  • the Tree of Guernica (1975)
  • the Emperor of Peru (1982)
  • the Cemetery of the cars (1983)
  • Adieu Babylon (1992)
  • Borges: Una vita di poesia available at ZARAFA Films (www.zarafa-films.com with Pantin, France).

Tests

  • the dudosa luz LED día
  • a slave named Cervantès
  • Gréco
  • Goya-Dalí
  • Bobby Fisher: the cursed king
  • Failures and myths
  • Festivals and defeats on the chess-board
  • fairy-like and libertarian failures
  • the frantic one of the spasm (1991)
  • Letter with the general Free
  • Letter in Fidel Castro (1984)
  • Letter in Stalin
  • Houellebecq!
  • Fernando Arrabal has held the chronicle on the set of failures for thirty years in the French weekly magazine the Express train .
He writes every Sunday his arrabalescos in El Mundo . Often the Leitartikel ( will plow for the third time it ) ABC . From time to time it publishes a opinion in El País

External bonds

  • All on Arrabal

  • Entretien panics

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