« La bicyclette du condamné » (deFernando Arrabal) in Iran
| 23 Apr 2011 15:41 |
He evaluates « The Condemned Man’s Bicycle » as a symbolic play classifiable under absurd. Criticism and humor are manifest features of this play.
He continued: « The tricycle relates the lives of two homeless prowlers dwelling in a public park. They have a tricycle by which they entertain little children and make a living. »
He asserted: « The Tricycle, too, is an absurd play set in an abnormal space and abnormal characters. In this play Arrabal criticizes class distances with his black comedy.
« The Condemned Man’s Bicycle » and « The Tricycle » penned by Fernando Arrabal and translated into Persian by Asghar Noori is published by Afraz Publications in 1100 copies.
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, describing 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.
Although he is one of the most controversial writers of his time, Arrabal’s work has been recognized throughout the world, with honors including the Grand Prize for Theatre of the Académie Française, the Premio Mariano de Cavia for journalism, the Nabokov Prize for novel writing, the Espasa Prize for Essay Writing, the World Theater Prize, etc.
In 2001, he was runner-up for the Premio Cervantes, nominated by Camilo José Cela and José Hierro. He was reportedly a finalist for the Nobel Prize in 2005, a prize which several institutions and personalities solicited for him. On July 14, 2005, he was named to France’s Légion d’honneur. In 2007 he was awarded a doctorate of letters Honoris Causa by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
