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El cementerio de automóviles / El arquitecto y el emperador de Asiria
El cementerio de automoviles retrata a unos seres condenados que habitan esqueletos mecanicos, El arquitecto y el emperador de Asiria supone el enfrentamiento mitico entre dos prototipos de gran densidad simbolica. Ambas obras son el nucleo fundamental de la obra de Arrabal.
240 pages, Paperback
First published June 30, 2004
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About the author
Fernando Arrabal
221 books104 followersFernando 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.
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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July 10, 2018
Relectura de esta obra.
Me ha vuelto a parecer espectacular y me ha asombrado que consiguiera de nuevo estremecerme con el escenario y los personajes que crea. Es una perfecta representación descarnada de las miserias humanas, de lo violento y degenerado que no ahorra en crítica social. Una obra de teatro que no solo no envejece con el tiempo sino que, con el pasar de los años, me parece que brilla más. Soberbia.
Nota: 9/ 10
Me ha vuelto a parecer espectacular y me ha asombrado que consiguiera de nuevo estremecerme con el escenario y los personajes que crea. Es una perfecta representación descarnada de las miserias humanas, de lo violento y degenerado que no ahorra en crítica social. Una obra de teatro que no solo no envejece con el tiempo sino que, con el pasar de los años, me parece que brilla más. Soberbia.
Nota: 9/ 10
April 23, 2023
Διάβασα το νεκροταφείο αυτοκινήτων και το τρίκυκλο. Εγώ το μόνο που αντιλαμβάνομαι στην ακαταλαβιστικη "μεταφορά" που είναι και κοινότυπη είναι ότι όποιος δεν μπορεί να γράψει κανονικά γράφει με συμβολισμούς για να κρύψει την έλλειψη ταλέντου του.
December 16, 2022
Nunca me he reído leyendo, pero con Arrabal es diferente. Su humor del absurdo es impecable.
Un 10!
Un 10!
January 12, 2023
Me lo leí del tirón, super divertido
March 18, 2025
He leído El cementerio de automóviles en media hora en la biblioteca. Muy divertida, me ha hecho mucha gracia el servicio de habitaciones (las habitaciones son coches abandonados en un vertedero)
October 12, 2014
Puras blasfemias, pero todo encantador. Siento tanto por Emanu. Arrabal es genioso.
February 23, 2015
Cementerio de automóviles es una obra maestra.
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