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Fernando Arrabal

Born

in Melilla, Spain

August 11, 1932

Genre

Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry

Influences

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Fernando Arrabal Terán (born August 11, 1932 in Melilla, Spain) is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist and poet. He settled in France in 1955, he describes himself as “desterrado,” or “half-expatriate, half-exiled.”

Arrabal has directed seven full-length feature films; he has published over 100 plays, 14 novels, 800 poetry collections, chapbooks, and artist’s books; several essays, and his notorious “Letter to General Franco” during the dictator’s lifetime. His complete plays have been published in a number of 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.”

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Average rating: 3.75 · 3,286 ratings · 466 reviews · 220 distinct works • Similar authors

	رسالة إلى الجنرال فرانكو by Fernando Arrabal, فرناندو أرابال, عمار الأتاسي (Translator) 3.97 avg rating — 790 ratings — published 1978 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pic-Nic / El triciclo / El laberinto 3.54 avg rating — 455 ratings — published 1961 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La torre herida por el rayo 3.78 avg rating — 260 ratings — published 1983 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pic-Nic by Fernando Arrabal, Jaime Asensi (Adaptor) 3.74 avg rating — 225 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Baal Babilonia 3.56 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 1959 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El cementerio de automóviles / El arquitecto y el emperador de Asiria by Fernando Arrabal, Diana Taylor (Editor) 3.70 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Red Virgin by Fernando Arrabal, Andrew Hurley (Translator) 3.52 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1986 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Guernica & Other Plays 3.85 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1969 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El arquitecto y el emperador de Asiria 3.62 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1967 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fando y Lis / Guernica / La bicicleta del condenado 3.62 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Fernando Arrabal (?)

“If it is not erotic, it is not interesting.”
― Fernando Arrabal

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“الإنسان المقهور هو فقط من يستطيع فرض القهر حوله”
― Fernando Arrabal

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“Ellos me dijeron que había que amar a la patria, que había que sacrificarse por ella, que había que sentirse orgulloso de sus héroes, que había que respetar el orden del país, que había que denunciar a los traidores, que había que odiar a los enemigos. Tú también me lo dijiste.”
― Fernando Arrabal, Baal Babilonia

tags: memoria, patria

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