Fernando Arrabal Terán (born August 11, 1932) is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist, and poet.In 1962, Arrabal co-founded the Panic Movement with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Roland Topor, inspired by the god Pan. He was elected Transcendent Satrap of the Collège de Pataphysique in 1990. Forty other Transcendent Satraps have been elected over the past half-century, including Marcel Duchamp, Eugène Ionesco, Man Ray, Boris Vian, Dario Fo, Umberto Eco, and Jean Baudrillard. Arrabal spent three years as a member of André Breton\'s surrealist group and was a friend of Andy Warhol and Tristan Tzara.The Burial of the Sardine was Arrabal\'s first novel, greatly inspired by the Goya painting of the same title. Cambridge News wrote \' Arrabel\'s surrealistic fantasies...have all the devilish ingenuity of the visionary Bosch and all his vitality and colour and beauty too\'.This copy is in good condition. The spine is intact but soiled and the cover has yellowed with age. The edges have darkened. There is sticker damage on the upper right hand corner of the title page.