Fernando Arrabal

Fernando Arrabal was born in Melilla in 1932. His father, an officer who had remained loyal to the Republic, was sentenced at the start of the civil war and then disappeared without trace, an absence that runs through the son's work. Settled in Paris in 1955, he founded there in 1962, with Roland Topor and Alejandro Jodorowsky, the Panic movement. In 1967, during a stay in Spain, he was imprisoned for a dedication judged blasphemous, then acquitted after an international campaign. He writes in Spanish and in French, and his work includes more than a hundred plays.

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• TheatreThe Car CemeteryEl cementerio de automóvilesFernando Arrabal · 1958Literature