Fernando Arrabal

Fernando Arrabal Terán ( born August 11, 1932 in Melilla, Spain) is a Spanish- French writer, poet and dramatist of the absurd theater.

Life

Reading and writing learned Fernando Arrabal in Ciudad Rodrigo in Salamanca. He has been awarded ten years as gifted and educated at the University Complutense of Madrid.

Sustainable traces left behind the mysterious disappearance of his father, who had fled after his death sentence. The poet Vicente Aleixandre sees the entire work as Arrabal - as a result of trauma - marked by a moral light.

Arrabal turned seven feature films and has published about 100 plays, 700 volumes of poetry, many essays and the famous letter to General Franco during his lifetime. His dramatic work ( in Spain in two volumes, over 2000 pages) Colección Clásicos Castellanos of the publishing house Espasa has been widely translated ( in France from the publisher Christian Bourgois and Actes Sud).

Arrabal co-founded the ' Mouvement Panique " with Roland Topor and Alejandro Jodorowsky. Since 1990 he is " Transcendent Satrape " ( Extraordinary satrap ) of the " Collège de ' Pataphysique ".

Awards

Although he was one of the most controversial writers of his time, learned Arrabal work worldwide recognition.

  • Big Theatre Prize of the Academie Française,
  • Roman Price Nabakov,
  • Prix ​​d' essai Espasa,
  • Prix ​​World Theater, etc.
  • Nadal Prix du Roman (1982 for La torre herida por el rayo )

Camilo José Cela nominated him for the finals of Cervantespreis. After " Le Mage " he should have been nominated for the Nobel Prize, among others, Francisco Torres Monreal from the University Murci.

Him the membership of the Legion of Honor was awarded on 14 July 2005.

Novels

  • Baal Babylone. (1959)
  • L' enterrement de la sardine.
  • Fête et rites de la confusion.
  • El mono.
  • La tour prends garde. (Original edition: " La torre herida por el rayo ": Ediciones Destino SA, Madrid 1983) Tall towers hit by a thunderbolt. Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-462-01772-1. as dtv Paperback, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-423-10998- X.

Poetic work

  • 700 Books illustrated by Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Roland Topor, Dorothée Bouchard and other
  • Humble Paradis
  • Pierre de la Folie

Dramatic work

  • Arrabal has published hundreds of plays in 19 volumes worldwide
  • Le Tricycle. (1953)
  • Fando et Lis. (1955)
  • Pique - nique en campagne. (1959 ), first operatic version " Picnic in the Field " by Otfried Busing (UA Musikhochschule Freiburg in 1997, publishing edition gravis, Berlin), second operatic version picnic in the field of Constantinos Stylianou, UA February 20, 2009 State Theatre Linz
  • Guernica. (1959)
  • La Bicyclette you condamné. (1959)
  • Le Grand Cérémonial. (1963)
  • L' Architecte et l' Empereur d' Assyrie. (1966)
  • Le Jardin des Délices. (1967)
  • Le Labyrinthe. (1967)
  • L' Aurore rouge et noire. (1968)
  • Bestialité érotique. (1968)
  • Le Ciel et la Merde. (1972)
  • Le Cimetière des voitures. (1959)
  • La nuit est aussi un soleil
  • Barbares Jeunes d'aujourd'hui
  • Et ils ... passèrent of menottes aux fleurs
  • La tour de Babel
  • Inquisition
  • Les Délices de la chair
  • La traversée de l' empire
  • Lettre d' amour ( comme un supplice chinois )
  • " L' Architect et l' Empereur d' Assyrie ," The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria, written in the second creative period as a dramatist, is one of his most important pieces.

Arrabal is the most widely played nowadays Spanish author. (see performance list: www.arrabal.org )

Cinematic works

Essays

  • La luz del día dudosa
  • Un esclave nommé Cervantès
  • Le Greco
  • Goya Dali
  • Bobby Fischer
  • Echecs et mythes
  • Fêtes et défaites sur l' échiquier
  • Les échecs féériques et libertaires
  • Le Frenetique you spasme. (1991)
  • Lettre au général Franco
  • Lettre à Fidel Castro. (1984)
  • Lettre à Staline
  • Houellebecq!

Arrabal has been writing for thirty years in the French express a chess column.

His " Arrabalesken " appear every Sunday in El Mundo.

He often wrote the lead article ( la tercera ) for ABC.

From time to time he wrote in El Pais.

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