Using diminutive names, such as: “Soso” or “Koba,” Arrabal addresses the leader Joseph Stalin through a long, sarcastic and indignant message, dropping from him the qualities of greatness and deification, so that he returns to a child who deserves rebuke.
Employing his huge and diverse intellectual reserve, Arrabal delves into the details of Stalin’s life, starting from his famous mustache, passing through the women in his life, the spies and henchmen who worked for him, and the poets who immortalized him in weak verses, all the way to his victims, who were many, inside and outside the Soviet Union, and with Therefore, Arrabal does not reveal the sources of his information, nor does he differentiate between facts and fabricated details. He does not seek to present a truly historical document as much as he is interested in formulating a dialectical and moral argument.
Unlike his letter to General Franco, which he sent to the latter while he was alive, writing to a dead dictator may seem like an absurd and useless act, but Arrabal is in fact directing his letter to the living who lived with Stalin, or were influenced by him later, and he is trying in his letter, which seems Closer to a plea in a court; To say: History is unforgettable and cannot be erased.
It expresses the man’s point of view towards the female who always wants to be the complementary part to him. No man is complete without the beauty of that part. The true female, which I talked about in the book, is the one who is everything to the man - she may or may not be, and the female must have complete faith. That she is a real female, with her own characteristics that distinguish her from others, and that the man should not have an opponent or rival because she will distance herself from him and lose him. The man is not like the female. The beauty and strength of each gender is in its qualities and the characteristics it carries that the other party needs. The man, despite his strength and power, seeks a female to embrace him. And she eases it, and when a female finds a man next to her, she is like a fierce lion in her strength, steadfastness, and self-confidence. The man and the female... are two sides of the same coin whose title is - life - (checkmate). O heart, if you do not find someone to complete you.
