El greco

by Fernando Arrabal

Rare Book

Genres: Art

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Alejandro Saint-Barthélemy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Librito de coleccionista.
Se nota y agradece el amor de Ar²abal por la pintura y la poesía: «Ut pictura poesis» (Horacio dixit), lo cual se aprecia en sus valoraciones sobre la obra y vida de Theotokópoulos («hijo de la madre de Dios») y la segunda parte del libro, sobre Velázquez.
Lo peor: la calidad de la reproducción de los cuadros, algunos muy pixelados. ¿Confusión!
B--!

[Felipe Macías · Rating 5 out of 5]

muy interesante, se agradece una vez más esa elocuencia tan característica de Arrabal, esa forma de invocar la sapiofilia sin gritarte imbécil a la cara.

Arrabal insulta al ojito derecho de la profe mientras admira al que se somete al ostracismo para no tener que ir a clase.