"Origin and Life of Panic" all starts with friendly meetings held in Paris in 1960, Arrabal, and Topo Jodorowsky r. Arrabal has 28 years, since 1955 lived in Paris, where he already been published and released. Of it has addressed the press, so complimentary. Alejandro Jodorowsky is THIRTY years, installed after is in Mexico.
In his stay in Paris knows the world of artists and comes thus, to interact with Arrabal. Versatile: writer actor, filmmaker and theater, propelling the "fleeting panics" (in 1965 there will be created and 27). For his part, Roland Topor, the youngest of the three, blinds immediately to the two playwrights with its bizarre sketches and drawings in which reconciles the ab surdo with cruel and ironic. Topor's launch as a painter and artist dates from his contact with the panics. Note that a series of drawings that helped to characterize most, "The masochistic" begins precisely in 1960. Later we will see become, as Jodorowsky and Arrabal, a multifaceted character, then, in addition to painting, which makes him a highly valued artist in the best European and American galleries, cultivates the story, the mock trial, drama, film ...
The above meetings are held at the Café de la Paix, Place de l'Opéra de Paris. Dominique Sevrain, perhaps unfairly, describes this coffee as a place outside literary concerns, with its baroque setting and his black waiter dressed as "Turk" who serves coffee to customers _ mostly foreign tourists _; the "panic "sought there art, philosophy, new trends ... and presented and discussed their personal achievements. Three coterie already indicated they will be joining others (Monasterio, Alberto Gironella, Sternberg, Orestes J., Diego Bardon and others) The group will increase gradually. In fact, in the first two years are not meant anything, they have not gone through the imagination the idea of \u200b\u200ban avant-garde movement. But soon, the climate of friendship and relaxation of the various components of the party and, in my opinion, at the time of mutual enrichment and collaboration in so many artistic choices in content and form, and above this as plural relationship matches in their behaviors and comprehensive philosophy of art and life make them think about the possibility of forming a group that originally referred to as "burlesque."
"Burlesque" in the dictionary means sacred lowered to the level of ridiculous. Following in the footsteps of English poetic Generation of 27, say taking the term in its sense "Gongora" (giving a hint Gongora, D. Sevrain precise). Arrabal, which undoubtedly were briefed extensively on Gongora, they will discover other aspects "panics" of English art and life (the mystics, Goya, Gracian Gomez de la Serna). Not unreasonable to believe see in this burlesque, in addition "hue Gongora, an echo of esperpentismo Valle - Inclán in their initial attitudes (which can not lead to exaggeration, as one critic has claimed, which in I think minimal and insignificant influences Valle - Inclán Arrabal, apart from the work Hey, Patria, my affliction, 1966 )
In February 1962, decided to change the term "burlesque" of by Panique ( panic). "Burlesque" we withdrew to a baroque universe and contradictory, in light and darkness culteranismo, the beautiful and the beast of the classical world and Góngora offer its variant in the fable of the fragile Polifermo hairy and Galatea snowy on the dialogue in the same plane (or, to the lowering of ridicule) among the mythic, the sacred, the socially exalted and low, ridiculous, monstrous ... Panic abounds in these same associations. For starters, Panic, meaning for corriennte designates as overwhelmed us collectively or individually, as a result of endemic transmission ... (Source of Research: Francisco Torres Monreal publication. English Literature 1986)
