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Garden of Delights: A Play
English, French (translation)
- GenresPlays
88 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1974
About the author
Fernando Arrabal
221 books106 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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April 8, 2026no tengo palabras genuinamente. no puedo ponerle ni nota es imposible.
la verdad es que todo el componente abstracto y surrealista me encanta pero la experiencia ha sido rarísima. lo religioso me ha fascinado también. sin embargo el conjunto es muy complejo. tendría que leerme un análisis de cada pequeña cosa (praying porque mañana en clase mi profe chulisimo me lo explique)
la verdad es que todo el componente abstracto y surrealista me encanta pero la experiencia ha sido rarísima. lo religioso me ha fascinado también. sin embargo el conjunto es muy complejo. tendría que leerme un análisis de cada pequeña cosa (praying porque mañana en clase mi profe chulisimo me lo explique)
April 8, 2026
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February 28, 2018
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June 1, 2023
Minor Arrabal.
August 31, 2010
It's a very disturbing book. It's a book dipped in surrealism sauce. It's a book that played a big part in my life for a short period of time. It's a book that is very dear to me.
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