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"1984": Carta a Fidel Castro

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Senor Don Fidel Castro RuzMonsieur, Avec le meme fol espoir, la meme crainte avec lesquels j'ecrivais hier au general Franco, aujourd'hui je m'adresse a vous, Caudillo... Arrabal herite de la lucidite d'un Kafka et de l'humour d'un Jarry il s'apparente, dans sa violence, a Sade ou a Artaud. Mais il est sans doute le seul a avoir pousse la derision aussi loin. L'oeuvre desoriente, provoque. Profondement politique et joyeusement ludique, revoltee et boheme, elle est le syndrome de notre siecle de barbeles et de une facon de se maintenir en sursis.

121 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1983

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Fernando Arrabal

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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.”

In 1962 Arrabal co-founded the Panic Movement with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Roland Topor, inspired by the god Pan, and 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.

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December 11, 2023
Intéressant j'ai trouver ce livre dans une boite à livre, l'auteur écrit bien même si la gravité et le sérieux du sujet l'imite la poésie de l'ouvre, pas un livre idéal pour faire connaissance avec la situation de Cuba mais une lettre écrit avec engagement c'est déjà ça.
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February 14, 2024
arrabal depois de espalhar imensas quantidades de desinformação: 😜🤪😚
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May 9, 2020
Si les interesa cuba, la revolución, Fidel Castro, y todo lo que lidian los cubanos a diario. Estas cartas dirigidas a él, les gustará. También formarán una imagen muy distinta a comparación de lo que venden los medios sobre el país.
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