biography
pronunciation:
[arabal]
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| (1932– )
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| biography:
| Playwright and novelist, born in Melilla, Spanish Morocco. He studied law in Madrid and drama in Paris, then settled permanently in France. His first play, Pique-nique en campagne (1958, trans Picnic on the Battlefield), established him in the tradition of the Theatre of the Absurd. He coined the term panic theatre, intended to shock the senses, employing sadism and blasphemy to accomplish its aims. Other plays include Le Cimetière des voitures (1958, The Car Cemetery) and Et ils passèrent des menottes aux fleurs (1969, And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers) - a work based on conversations with Spanish political prisoners, which was eventually banned in France and Sweden while becoming his first major success in America in 1971. He writes in Spanish, his work being translated into French by his wife. |
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