The Lion of El Español Publicaciones SAThe playwright Fernando Arrabal, photographed at the beginning of the year.Theresa Fernandez"I would be enthralled if the interview was by mail, which are the least likely to sulk or bother the possible reader", answers -by mail- Fernando Arrabal (Melilla, 1932) to the proposal of El Cultural.He has just turned 90 and remains rooted in the eccentricity that is marked by his own surname.He weighs 57 kilos and measures 1.57 meters, clarifies the active nonagenarian, who, with pleasure, has seen how the Navarran publishing house Laetoli has just launched the Arrabal Library.To begin with, he has re-launched two titles, La piedra de la loco and Carta al general Franco, a text in which he challenged that national-Catholic regime that destroyed the life of his father (a lieutenant loyal to the Republic sentenced to 30 years in prison) and, By the way, yours.This week, on the other hand, the founder -along with Jodorowsky and Topor- of the Panic movement has temporarily left his Parisian home to appear at La Filmoteca, which has seen fit to screen Viva la muerte, restored and exhibited at the last Cannes Film Festival .A film, by the way, that alienated him from Picasso, who did not like his title with Millanastrayian resonances.Of this friction between the two exiles, of their relationship with sex in the nonagénatevité, of their stateless Spanishness, of their cathodic drunkenness, already a national heritage, of the Bergmanian chess game pending with death... Of all that, and some something else, he speaks to us in the key of ejaculation.Drunk, we, to read him.Ask.At 90, is there anything that still gives you Panic?Response.Who discovered time being born out of nothing?I expect a lot from the scientific contribution of confusion and preponderant roles: from the poet Ἡσίοδος, Thalē̂s ho Milḗsios, Cervantes and the tohu va-bohu of Genesis.Does time watch us pass?P. Do you see yourself playing - many years from now, of course - with death at chess?R. What happiness to finish during one of my daily chess games.Without thinking that they have made me such a seditious being that I can only run towards the storm.Epicurus thought that whoever is content with little will not settle for anything.P. Although the game will still have to be played in front of Christ, in the Final Judgment.What do you think?R. I would prefer that the last things be led by his revered and respected Mother.What would have happened if Jesus Christ had been crucified at his birth?Too soon to be true?P. Have you thought about the strategy that you will use when the time comes?A. Two thousand years later I would recognize the Lord-Don-Saint-Pablo: do we have two opposing truths?The one we call truth and the other we call error.By the way, did you receive responses to his epistles?The pagan blood returns?Q. Does sex, for that matter, have any importance at your age?R. Obviously, much more than at the age of twenty.What would sin be without the help of the religious to the carnal act.Even when a woman is said, she feels in her pants... All proverbs, are they irregular?Performance and greatness intersect without seeing each other.[Fernando Arrabal: "Spain is a confusion of destinies in the astracanada"]Q. Can one really experience (and therefore prepare for) death through sex?I think of Bataille's petite mort.A. It's hard for me to admire Bataille today (with-the-one-I-loved-so much).He was great, to the sweat of my repudiation?The sad flattening of him and grinding of him with the buried monkey...Q. Does he still pray to the god Pan?R. I never prayed to her, I always preferred the Virgin... so as not to practice the smug reason of arrogance and petulance?Q. And in the eternal tension between Apollo and Dionysus, where does he stand today?Which one has more candles?R. Between party and serenity today's Hesiod dreams of challenging philosophy in general and that of Socrates in particular;so disinterestedly how simply we can behave morally.P. For a Dionysian and cathodic evening he is one of the most famous writers in Spain.Does it sadden you that part of his popularity comes from this and not from strictly literary reasons?R. What an undeserved honor that (with the Stasi at the time) I was defamed above his means;an inflatable doll was assembled;when a needle approached… they had lost the rustines (security patches).P. To what extent do you think he has conditioned his life to be surnamed Arrabal?R. André Breton was the first to refer to the arra-beaux ¿arra-beautiful?: the three Army officers loyal to their vocations sentenced to death at the beginning of the uncivil war.The real arrabeaux was my grandmother who traveled the distance from Ceuta to Mallorca, in full uncivil confrontation, to stop kissing them before the consummation.P. You will 'interview' with Albert Serra at La Filmoteca.What is it that most attracts you to his cinematography?A. His sensitivity feeds his intuition.And intelligence knows about him.He shines in the metropolis of abysmal solitudes."Epicurus thought that he who is content with little will not settle for anything"P. What makes you feel the fact that his theater is represented very sparingly in the great national theaters of this Spain of ours?A. Tamerlane was only dismayed to learn that a hill had been built with the skulls of his victims.In Antatanarivo and Tegucigalpa I heard a similar recommendation: Put televisions in theaters and you'll see how people fill them.Here and there the theatrical intuition, does it scare?because of his absolute knowledge?P. Your great supporter around here has been Juan Carlos Pérez de la Fuente.How would you rate his montages from his works?R. A great-of-the-theater too perverse to live depending on chance and too naive and complacent to need a rescuer.P. Do you have the impression that they pay more attention to you in Latin America than in his small homeland?R. Remember the verb forget.I am impressed that from Invercargil to Novoryonaya it is still taken into account... and that my memories are half the perspective and sometimes much more.P. You do not feel Spanish or French, but from exile, which is a tragedy, but does it have, on the other hand, any advantage?A. When the French laugh aux larmes, does the Spanish die of laughter?During my "professional" trips... and what if I had walked the theaters, festivals and cinemas on someone else's feet? that she deliberately directed me or directed me to where she wanted or would have been infatuated with...Q. Something similar happened to Picasso: neither from here nor from there.I think he got mad at you for his movie Viva la muerte.Why?R. He did not want us to talk about the film because of the title.Picasso in front of the remains of the famous mammoth, would he have objected like Leibniz: is he a unicorn as those in charge teach and the Italian doorman who has put me at the door of my mansion?When I told Buñuel, come up with me, Picasso gets bored up there.Buñuel argued: - Noooo.It is not going to be that he shows me his paintings."From Spain the noise of his boots always scared me less than the silence of his slippers"P. But Beckett said that you "had a profoundly Spanish talent."Do you subscribe to Beckett's categorical statement?R. Beckett entered literature, like someone who enters the trapa or joins the maquis?The unexpected for him was it a blind archer?P. At this point, with almost a century of life, does Spain still hurt?A. He always scared me less the sound of his boots than the silence of his slippers.When I have to say something confusing, I say it... because Cervantes, two years before going into hiding, in Adjunta al Parnaso, warns us that what he esteems the most and what I value the most was and is... The confused one.Q. Is the old Europe already, at this point, an old skin?R. Is it the place of the Theogony itself towards which reason rushes, when it leans towards the unthinkable?The devil hides at the crossroads?P. The war has trodden your soil again.Do you sense the nuclear apocalypse or do you still have reservations of optimism?R. The zero waits for its moment?Thanks to a new pill?Will the soldiers of the latest conflict have multicolored blood?Will the bloody trenches be more aesthetic?Q. Nationalism for Fernando Arrabal is…R. 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