{"product_id":"fools-and-other-plays","title":"FOOLS and other plays","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdmundo Farolan has written a collection of plays in Spanish, Hexalogia Teatral, which was published in 2010 in Spain. He has professionally acted and directed in plays as well as film. He was awarded the Zobel Prize in 1982 for his book of poems, Tercera Primavera, published in Bogot‡ when he was doing post-doctoral studies at the Instituto Caro y Cuervo in 1981, and in 2017, the III JosŽ Rizal Prize for Literature for his semi-biographical novel, El diario de Frankie Aguinaldo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat critics say:\u003cbr\u003e\nÒThe plays of Edmundo Farolan are akin to the key figures of the Theatre of the Absurd: Beckett or Ionesco, but mostly Kafka.Ó J.NIETO\u003cbr\u003e\nÒHis plays are irreverent, typical of Quentin Tarantino, with an atmosphere, an aesthetic, reminiscent of that admired cinema B of the seventies, with low budgets but with deep expression.Ó I. DONOSO\u003cbr\u003e\nÒThe plays of Edmundo Farolan are innovative, perplexing, daring.Ó--F. DOMINGUEZ\u003cbr\u003e\nÒThrough the Absurd, he demystifies power, shows its emptiness, offering the viewer the possibility of distancing himself\/herself.ÓÑR.VAZQUEZ\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksWholesale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44362989961377,"sku":"9781716695001","price":42.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/y9j6jj-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1716436627","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/fools-and-other-plays","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}