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 He does not seek to present a truly historical document as much as he is interested in formulating a dialectical and moral argument.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.
Missed : Words... of poems that tell about an imaginary reality... or perhaps they simulate realistic imagination My assumption is that someone... on this vast planet... has lived it In this life...or in other lives But they forgot to write it down... but it came to my mind... so I wrote it down Until I put my first fingerprints on characters that have existed since time immemorial Their repeated presence in this life is not a coincidence Rather, so that we can separate good from evil...or see faces completely stripped of their masks Even if we forcefully convince ourselves that it can bring us good However, evil is inherent in her from birth.
ذا كتاب عن الرمز والترميز في الثقافة الدارجة و" الراقية"، وفي الأدب؛ شعره ونثره، في النصوص اللغويّة والبصريّة. يتأسس الكتاب على مهاد عن الرمز والترميز، ولغات التواصل البشري غير اللفظي، والكلام بغير كلام، ويشتمل فصولًا يتناول كلٌّ منها رمزًا بالمناقشة؛ من القمر إلى الكهف، والباب، والبحر، إلى العين واللون الأسود، وغير ذلك من رموز، ويستعرض بعض تجليات ذلك الرمز في الثقافة والأدب، في الشرق والغرب. ثم يتناول نصًّا أدبيًّا يظهر فيه الرمز بجلاء، ويؤدي دورًا مهمًّا في إنتاج دلالة النّص. يشمل الكتاب كذلك نصوصًا متضمنّة تشير إلى بعض ما فيه من مفاهيم وأفكار وموضوعات. من غايات هذه النصوص الصغرى الاستطرادُ، ودفعُ الملالة والسأم، وفتح آفاق تحليل جديدة. وفي الكتاب عبارات وجُمَل ونصوص من لهجات عربيّة - خصوصا لغة أهل مصر- ترد في الكتاب على هيئتها، لا باللغة العربية الفصحى؛ ليبقى زخمها الثقافي بلا نقصان. ( إلّا رمزًا) كتاب يومئ ويشير، لكنّه لا يحيط. يحتفي بالرمز والترميز، وبالإنسان؛ مدار الترميز، وبالنّصوص الأدبية والثقافيّة؛ تلك الحقول التي تنمو فيها الرموز وتثمر