20th Century Spanish Literature: Rulfo, Sender, Arrabal
Rulfo
(1917-1986) was a writer, screenwriter and Mexican photographer, belonging to the generation of ’52. This is one of the most prestigious writers of the twentieth century, despite being very prolific. He is considered one of the most prominent writers in the Spanish language in this period.
Juan Rulfo was one of the great Latin American writers of the twentieth century, which belonged to the literary movement called “magical realism” and his works show a combination of reality and fantasy, whose action takes place in American stage, and its characters represent and reflect the quaintness of the place, with its great socio-cultural issues intertwined with the fantasy world.
Pedro Paramo is the title of the single short novel by Mexican writer Juan Rulfo, originally published in 1955. It is the second book of Rulfo after “The Burning Plain” which was a compilation of stories that originally appeared inserts in newspapers in Mexico. “Pedro Páramo” has been influential in the development of magical realism is told in a mixture of first and third person. Rulfo’s novel has been considered one of the summits of the literature written in Castilian by Carlos Fuentes. Gabriel García Márquez said that no reading had made me feel that node since she read “The Metamorphosis” Kafka. By Jorge Luis Borges, one of the more educated men of letters in Spanish that there was ever even said that is one of the best novels of world literature.
The novel has had countless language translations and has received numerous film adaptations. The last and most prominent directed by Mateo Gil and starring Gael García Bernal.
Ramon J. Sender
One of the most important Spanish novelists of the postwar period in exile. Perky and precocious, ten years (1911) began high school as a pupil free, the chaplain of the convent of Santa Clara Tauste, Mosen Joaquin, conducted his study, which was discussed at an Institute of Zaragoza. Later his father sent him to boarding students from the monks of St. Peter the Apostle of Reus. The family moved to Zaragoza, where he attended fifth and sixth high school, but student unrest broke out he was unfairly cast blame and all subjects stopped him, so he had to finish their studies in Alcañiz, Teruel, where there remained youth working as a drugstore, because he had quarreled with his father.
Requiem for a Spanish Peasant is undoubtedly its small (due to its short length) masterpiece. Originally appeared under the title Mosen Millan in Mexico (1953), acquired its present name in 1960. The reason for its publication in Mexico was, among others, suffered censorship for years in Spain.
The story, of extreme simplicity, tells a tense calm atmosphere of the most important events in the life of Paco el del Molino, and intrigue, revenge, fear and anger to which they are subjected.
But this story is just an excuse to show the reality, the true story, where political commitment is the author showing two opposing ideologies. Despite the fear and the tumultuous events that evoke, everything is told with extreme structural simplicity in an atmosphere devoid of nightmares but not sober and quiet, perhaps even remorse and repentance and hypocrisy. No doubt a complex work, but essential part of Spanish literature.
Paco is the protagonist of the novel, is a classic antihero, tragedy, pure, sincere, and perhaps somewhat idealistic. The example, the leader in the fight, the most beloved of the people, but the true protagonist and narrator of the story is Mosen Millan.The village priest brings to mind the life of Paco in stages, each piece recalls some events Paco’s life from childhood until his death, which, in large part, he is responsible. It is precisely this responsibility, this malaise, that terrible burden on for having betrayed, further outlining the social reality of the time, which we will describe and discover little by little with great story telling.
Indeed the novel is, from the beginning, the thread of thoughts, worries and regrets the pastor and the feelings that assailed, and self-justifications are looking to lighten your load moral responsibility in the death of Paco.
The narrative, from the point of view of Mosen Millan is sincere and even tender at times. The role played in the work just come to fully understand at the climax of the novel, which recounts the betrayal of the village priest to Paco.
Fernando Arrabal
He is a writer and filmmaker born in 1932. He lives in France since 1955.
He learned to read and write in Salamanca, winning the National Award for ‘gifted’ to ten years and pursuing their university studies in Madrid.
As a child suffered the mysterious disappearance of his father, sentenced to death and then fled. Because of this trauma, as he wrote Vicente Aleixandre Nobel Prize, “the knowledge produced Arrabal is tinged with a moral light that is in the very stuff of his art.”
In 2010 Fernando Arrabal has starred in the first genre film Post-Panic of history. The film Ushima-Next has been created and directed by Joan Frank Charansonnet. Since 2002, Arrabal and Charansonnet have collaborated with each other in various artistic projects such as Love Letter (Hermitage Theater in Moscow) or the official replacement Architect and the Emperor of Assyria forty years after its release. (Fernando Arrabal was awarded the Honorary Max)
PIC-NIC is a Work of Fernando Arrabal, Spanish writer who wrote in 1947 in a clear statement against war. Even today it still represents the five continents “To show the absurdity of the silent war” … By Arrabal.
The play on gender absurd, a marriage that is going to visit the front lines with the intention of spending a day of Pic-Nic with his son who is in a trench. There appears a floored enemy with whom they share the field day in a friendly atmosphere. Surprised to discover that neither side wants war and decide to end it. The naivete of the characters are broken when the reality of war
unleashes its full fury killing his dreams at the end of the work.