Fernando Arrabal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Fernando Arrabal

Spanish French writer and actor

Date of Birth: 11-Aug-1932

Place of Birth: Melilla, Spain

Profession: screenwriter, actor, writer, poet, playwright, author, artist, painter, film director, novelist

Nationality: Spain, France

Zodiac Sign: Leo

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About Fernando Arrabal

  • Fernando Arrabal Terán (born August 11, 1932) is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist, and poet.
  • He was born in Melilla and settled in France in 1955.
  • Regarding his nationality, Arrabal describes himself as "desterrado", or "half-expatriate, half-exiled". Arrabal has directed seven full-length feature films and has published over 100 plays; 14 novels; 800 poetry collections, chapbooks, and artists' books; several essays; and his notorious "Letter to General Franco" during the dictator's lifetime.
  • His complete plays have been published, in multiple languages, in a two-volume edition totaling over two thousand pages.
  • The New York Times' theatre critic Mel Gussow has called Arrabal the last survivor among the "three avatars of modernism". In 1962, Arrabal co-founded the Panic Movement with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Roland Topor, inspired by the god Pan.
  • He was elected Transcendent Satrap of the Collège de Pataphysique in 1990.
  • Forty other Transcendent Satraps have been elected over the past half-century, including Marcel Duchamp, Eugène Ionesco, Man Ray, Boris Vian, Dario Fo, Umberto Eco, and Jean Baudrillard.
  • Arrabal spent three years as a member of AndrĂ© Breton's surrealist group and was a friend of Andy Warhol and Tristan Tzara. Writer and critic Javier Villan wrote of Arrabal:Arrabal's theatre is a wild, brutal, cacophonous, and joyously provocative world.
  • It is a dramatic carnival in which the carcass of our 'advanced' civilizations is barbecued over the spits of a permanent revolution.
  • He is the artistic heir of Kafka's lucidity and Jarry's humor; in his violence, Arrabal is related to Sade and Artaud.
  • Yet he is doubtless the only writer to have pushed derision as far as he did.
  • Deeply political and merrily playful, both revolutionary and bohemian, his work is the syndrome of our century of barbed wire and Gulags, a manner of finding a reprieve.

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