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Literature & Fiction

Arrabal, Fernando

Literary

Penguin??Books

Arrabal, Fernando. The Red Virgin. Translated from the Spanish and French by Andrew Hurley. First edition. New York / London, Penguin Books, 1993. 13 x 20cm. 248 pages. Original softcover in protective Mylar. Excellent condition. Inscribed / Signed by author on title page. Arrabal's fascinating novel offers a one-sided conversation in which a grieving mother addresses her daughter, whom she has murdered. As a young woman, the unnamed narrator discovered a book on alchemy that set her on the path of her life's work: to bear an austere, brilliant, unique'' child whose life would be dedicated to discovering the secret of the Philosopher's Stone. Her daughter, Vulcasais (named for fire and truth), is indeed brilliant, intellectually an adult at five years old. Concealed from the world by her watchful mother, she obediently slaves at their cellar furnace to distill elements into their purest form. The girl's contact with the outer world is essentially limited to visits with Chevalier and Abelardo, their strangely chiasmatic neighbors (as one declines in health, the other flourishes--a situation that reverses periodically). But despite the narrator's resolute efforts to promote and control the quest for pure knowledge, elements beyond her reach converge to fatally undermine her ambition. [Publishers Weekly]

The Red Virgin

E-486. A brilliant example of Arrabal's "theatre of panic", set on a tropical island, its only inhabitants being the Emperor of Assyria and an Architect. A trial ensues, in which the the Architect condemns the Emperor to death. Translated by Everard D'Harnoncourt and Adele Shank. 93 pages.

The architect and the Emperor of Assyria, (Evergreen original E-486)

GROVE PRESS

And they put handcuffs on the flowers

Grove Press; [Distributed by Random House

Arrabal Fernando : La Vierge Rouge (the Red Madonna)

Viking/Allen Lane

Le Theatre, 1971.1 (Les Monstres) (French Edition)

French & European Pubns

The compass stone

The celebrated Spanish playwright Fernando Arrabal, who lived in Madrid under the oppression of the Franco regime, writes passionately of human atrocity and of hope. This collection of plays embodies Arrabal’s theatre of panic,” named after the god Pan. The homme panique is a man who refuses to take risks, who avoids danger and therefore heroism, who avoids the irreparable act, but who, ironically, is caught up in a world of chance that forces him to make choices. The collection includes Guernica, an earthy verbal re-creation of Picasso’s famous painting, in which an old Basque couple is caught in the air raids; And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers, a violent protest against the Franco regime; the ingenious and poetic The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria; and Garden of Delights, which explores the lesbian tendencies of strong adolescent attachments and the sadomasochistic experience of adult love. Includes: 'Guernica' 'And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers' 'The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria' 'Garden of Delights'

Guernica and Other Plays: The Labyrinth; The Tricycle; Picnic on the Battlefield; And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers; The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria; Garden of Delights

Dramas & Plays

In spite of the Franco regime censorship, and after an initial almost total purge that meant exile to many of the top intellectuals and artists, the evolutionary process of peninsular Spanish art and culture did not stop to a complete standstill. During the 40's and 50's a renewal movement took place, and the three playwrights and their plays included in this volume were of utmost importance to it. The case of Arrabal, premiered outside the Spanish borders and in French, though most of his production was conceived and written initially in Spanish, is a perfect example of how Spanish literature kept its liveliness, even in exile. These three plays also share the fact of being tragedies, a very uncommon characteristic in Spanish theatre, specially so during the years in which comedy ruled as a very convenient way of escaping the dramatic socio-political surrounding reality. The renewal impulse in Spanish theatre started in 1945. That year the «Arte Nuevo» group was established, and in 1949 «Teatro de Vanguardia. 15 obras de Arte Nuevo» was published. Avant garde theatre! New Art! during the 40's in Franco's Spain! The renewed and open-minded theatrical context that emerged in the stifled climate of the Franco Spain of the 40's, the so called «black decade», is noticeably present in these plays of the Antonio Buero Vallejo, Alfonso Sastre and Fernando Arrabal production. Sastre, as well as Arrabal and Buero Vallejo were imprisoned by the regime, and these plays reflect their respective biographical projections. This volume gathers these authors' different styles and playwriting -very often clashing- but whose common constant is the linking of the Spanish theatre with the international drama tendencies. Along his introduction professor Victor Fuentes develops a schematic analysis of the Buero Vallejo, Sastre and Arrabal achievements through drama experimentation in their respective plays. With this edition we offer the US reader three fundamental plays of the literary, cultural and theatrical Spanish -and universal- memory of more than half a century ago, whilst proposing the deciphering of their present meanings and projections into the future.

Tres Obras Renovadoras del Teatro Español de Posguerra: Historia de Una Escalera, Escuadra Hacia La Muerte, Cementerio de Automoviles (Spanish Edition)

Sastre, Alfonso

Buero-Vallejo, Antonio

Stockcero

La Tour de Babel ; La Guerre de mille ans ; Sur le fil ou la Ballade du train fantôme ; Jeunes barbares d'aujourd'hui (10/18 ; 1352) (French Edition)

Editions Flammarion

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