The Compass Stone - Hardcover

Arrabal, Fernando

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802100023 ISBN 13: 9780802100023

Publisher: Grove Press, 1987

Synopsis

Arrabal, Fernando. Translated by Andrew Hurley. The Compass Stone. First Edition. New York, Grove Press, 1987. 22 cm. 165 pages. Original hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in Protective covering. Excellent condition first English edition with only very minor signs of external wear. Signed / Inscribed by Fernando Arrabal on the halftitle. In The Compass Stone, his second novel to be published in English, Fernando Arrabal creates a narrative counterpart to his theater of panic, which has won him a reputation as one of the most significant dramatists of our time. The Compass Stone is in the form of a memoir by an unnamed chronicler, a twenty-year-old woman who lives in a greenhouse of a mansion occupied by her crippled father, the Maimed One, and his two grotesque handmaidens, the Sisters. The high walls surrounding the mansion enclose a world unique to Arrabal's imagination, a Boschian allegory world in which guilt, sadism, bodage and murder all fit together to form a surprisingly coherent universe (from the dustjacket). Fernando Arrabal Terán (born August 11, 1932) is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist and poet. Arrabal was born in Melilla, Spain, but settled in France in 1955; he describes himself as desterrado, or half-expatriate, half-exiled. (Amazon).

Edition details

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802100023
• ISBN 13: 9780802100023
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1