From: World Literature Today | Date: January 1, 1996| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1996 University of Oklahoma. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Like his plays, Fernando Arrabal's ninth novel, La tueuse du Jardin d'Hiver, revolves around metaphysical concerns which find physical expression in the temples, buildings, costumes, rituals, and icons that surround and threaten to engulf the primary characters. To say that Arrabal shares the "boom" sensibility of Jorge Luis Borges or Gabriel Garcia Marquez is reductive and rather facile, because although the emphasis on a surreal esthetic is definitely a component of Arrabal's art production, Arrabal's work is more self-referential and self-reflexive. As a result, the reader is a ...