Fernando Arrabal
Fernando Arrabal Terán (born August 11, 1932 in Melilla , Spain ) is a Spanish-French writer , poet and playwright of the absurd theater .
Life
Fernando Arrabal learned to read and write in Ciudad Rodrigo near Salamanca . At the age of ten he was recognized as gifted and studied at the Complutense University of Madrid .
The mysterious disappearance of the father, who fled after his death sentence, left lasting traces. The poet Vicente Aleixandre sees the entire work of Arrabal as - as a result of trauma - shaped by a moral light.
In 1956 Arrabal went into exile in Paris .
Arrabal made seven feature films and published around 100 plays, 700 volumes of poetry, many essays and the well-known letter to General Franco during his lifetime. His dramatic work (in Spain in two volumes over 2000 pages) Colección Clásicos Castellanos by the Espasa publishing house has been translated many times (in France by the Christian Bourgois and Actes Sud publishers ).
Arrabal co-founded the “ Mouvement Panique ” with Roland Topor and Alejandro Jodorowsky . Since 1990 he has been "Transcendent Satrape" (Extraordinary Satrap) of the " Collège de 'Pataphysique ".
“A crazy, brutal, lively, lustfully provocative theater. A dramaturgical potlatch where the skeleton of our 'progress' society is charred on the ceremonial ramp in a permanent revolution. He inherited clarity from Kafka and humor from Jarry. He got the violence from de Sade and Artaud. But with his scorn he went the furthest. Deeply political and cheerful, playful, revolting and bohemian, this is a syndrome of barbed wire and goulags of our century. "
Awards
Although he was one of the most controversial authors of his time, Arrabal's work received worldwide recognition.
- Grand Theater Prize of the Academie Française,
- Novel Prize Nabakov,
- Prix Espasa d'essai,
- Prix World Theater etc.
- Prix Nadal du Roman (1982 for La torre herida por el rayo )
Camilo José Cela nominated him for the finals of the Cervantes Prize . After “Le Mage” he is said to have been nominated for the Nobel Prize by Francisco Torres Monreal from the University of Murci, among others .
On July 14, 2005, he was awarded membership of the Legion of Honor .
Novels
- Baal babylons. (1959)
- L'enterrement de la sardine.
- Fêtes et rites de la confusion. (Le Terrain Vague, 1967) (Rites and festivals of confusion, Josef Melzer Verlag, 1969)
- El mono.
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La tour prends garde. (Original edition: "La torre herida por el rayo": Ediciones Destino SA, Madrid 1983)
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Lightning strikes high towers . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-462-01772-1 .
- as dtv paperback, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-423-10998-X .
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Lightning strikes high towers . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-462-01772-1 .
- La vierge rouge.
- La fille de King-Kong.
- La tueuse du jardin d'hiver.
- Levitation.
- Porté disparu.
- L'extravagante croisade d'un castrat amoureux.
- Levitation.
- Champagne pour tous.
Poetic work
- 700 books illustrated by Pablo Picasso , Salvador Dalí , René Magritte , Roland Topor , Dorothée Bouchard , Gustavo Charif , Enrico Baj and others.
- Humbles Paradise
- Pierre de la Folie
Dramatic work
- Arrabal published a hundred plays in 19 volumes worldwide
- Le tricycle. (1953)
- Fando et Lis. (1955)
- Pique-nique en campagne. (1959), first version of the opera "Picnick im Felde" by Otfried Büsing (premier at the Musikhochschule Freiburg 1997, publisher edition gravis, Berlin), second version of the opera Picnick im Felde by Constantinos Stylianou , premiered on February 20, 2009 at the Landestheater Linz
- Guernica. (1959)
- La Bicyclette du condamné. (1959)
- Le Grand Cérémonial. (1963)
- L'Architecte et l'Empereur d'Assyrie. (1966) (The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1971, Pocket 19)
- La communion solennelle. (1967) (Solemn Communion, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1971, Pocket 19)
- Les amours impossibles. (The impossible love affairs, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1971, Pocket 19)
- Et ils passèrent des memottes aux fleurs. (And they handcuff the flowers, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1971, Pocket 19)
- Le Jardin des délices. (1967)
- Le mazes. (1967) (The Labyrinth, contained in Schwarzes Theater, Hermann Luchterhand Verlag, 1963)
- L'Aurore rouge et noire. (1968)
- Bestiality erotique. (1968)
- Le Ciel et la Merde. (1972)
- Le Cimetière des voitures. (1959)
- La nuit est also un soleil
- Jeunes barbaren d'aujourd'hui
- ... Et ils passèrent des 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'Empéreur d'Assyrie”, The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria, written in the second creative period as a dramaturge, is one of his most important pieces.
Arrabal is the most played Spanish writer today. (see list of performances: www.arrabal.org)
Cinematic work
- 1968: Little Bird, Little Bird on the Wall ( Le grand cérémonial ) - actor and literary source
- 1970: Viva la muerte - Long live death ( Viva la muerte ) - literary source, screenplay and direction
- 1973: I'll walk like a crazy horse ( J'irai comme un cheval fou ) - screenplay
- 1976: Underground and Emigrants - starring
- 1975: L'Arbre de Guernica. - script
- 1979: The Hamburg Disease - Actor
- 1982: The emperor of Peru. - Script and direction
- 1983: Le Cimetière des voitures. - Actor
- 1992: Adieu Babylone
- 1982: The royal game. ( The great chess movie ) - performer
Essays
- La dudosa luz del day
- Un esclave nommé Cervantès
- Le Gréco
- Goya-Dalí
- Bobby Fischer
- Echecs et mythes
- Fêtes et défaites sur l'échiquier
- Les échecs féériques et libertaires
- Le frénétique du spasme. (1991)
- Lettre au général Franco
- Lettre à Fidel Castro. (1984)
- Lettre à Staline
- Houellebecq!
Arrabal has been writing a chess column in the French Express for thirty years .
His “ Arrabalesques ” appear every Sunday in El Mundo .
He often writes the leading article (la tercera) for ABC .
From time to time he writes in El País .
literature
- Fernando Arrabal Terán , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 34/2009 from August 18, 2009, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
- Literature by and about Fernando Arrabal in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Fernando Arrabal in the German Digital Library
- Fernando Arrabal in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- http://www.arrabal.org/
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arrabal, Fernando |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arrabal Terán, Fernando (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hispanic-French writer and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Melilla , Spanish Morocco |