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ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY, QUEENS CAMPUS


WEDNESDAY, October 31, 2007, AT 4:30 PM DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES,
ROOM 437, ST. JOHN HALL, ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY, QUEENS CAMPUS EPSILON KAPPA, ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY’S CHAPTER OF SIGMA DELTA PI, THE SPANISH HONOR SOCIETY,AND THE DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES AN INTERVIEW WITH FERNANDO ARRABAL, (The interview will be conducted by Dr. Marie-Lise Gazarian)
Fernando Arrabal Terán was born in Melilla, Spanish Morocco. Since 1955 he has made his home in Paris, although he frequently visits Spain. An internationally-renowned playwright, director and film producer, he is also a novelist, essayist and poet, and his works have been translated into many languages. In his plays, written in the tradition of the Theatre of the Absurd, to which he refers as “Panic Theatre,” he reconciles the holy and the blasphemous, where opposites meet and clash in a search for freedom and the absolute. A non-conformist, he is both an anarchist and a man of tradition. Author of twenty volumes of plays, his dramas have been performed all over the world.. Among his other plays are: Guernica, 1961 (Guernica and Other Plays, 1967); L’architecte et l’empereur d’Assyrie, 1967 (The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria, 1969); La Inquisición, 1982 (The Inquisition, 1983). He received the Nadal prize in 1983 for his novel La torre herida por el rayo (The Tower Struck by Lightning, 1988). Some of his other novels are: La piedra iluminada, 1985 (The Compass Stone, 1987); La vierge rouge, 1986 (The Red Madonna, 1991); La hija de King Kong (King Kong’s Daughter), 1988; Un esclavo llamado Cervantes, 1996 (A Slave called Cervantes). He is also the author of a series of letters: Carta al general Franco, 1972; Carta a Fidel Castro, 1984 and Carta a Stalin 2006. Arrabal has received some of the most prestigious awards.