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« Laberinto » de F.Arrabal.

Teheran . Iran

traducción de Shirin Hosseinzadeh Rahvar

(mejor traducción  del festival universitario de Teheran).

« … ‘Laberinto’ estará en la escena persa …  esta obra fantástica… genial…
…Guest of honour Fernando Arrabal…
.. Fernando Arrabal, 80, is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist and poet, living in France since 1955. His father, who was opposed to the right-wing movement of General Francisco Franco, disappeared in 1941, which traumatised the young Arrabal. At the age of ten the lad was awarded a National Prize for “Gifted Children” and went on to study at the university in Madrid.
Arrabal has directed seven full-length feature films, published over one hundred plays, fourteen novels, seven poetry collections, many essays, and his celebrated “Letter to General Franco” during the dictator’s lifetime. His complete plays, which run to over two thousand pages, have been published in a number of languages. The Dictionary of Literatures in the French Language writes: « Arrabal’s theatre is a wild, brutal, cacophonous, and joyously provocative world. It is a dramatic carnival in which the carcass of our ‘advanced’ civilizations is barbecued over the spits of a permanent revolution. He is the artistic heir of Kafka’s lucidity and Jarry’s humor; in his violence, Arrabal is related to Sade and Artaud. Yet he is doubtless the only writer to have pushed derision as far as he did. Deeply political and merrily playful, both revolutionary and bohemian, his work is the syndrome of our century of barbed wire and Gulags, a manner of finding a reprieve… »