AN ANALYSIS OF THE NOVEL "THE INJURED BY LIGHTNING TOWER" by Fernando Arrabal
Viveca Tallgren
Chess is the leitmotif in the novel The Tower struck by lightning, for which he received the Premio Nadal Arrabal in 1982.
The outer frame of the novel is the twenty fourth game world chess championship between English and Swiss Elias Tarsis Marc Amary in Paris. The rather complex argument is developed during the four hours and a half of the game you play by play is explained in diagrams interspersed in the text. Parallel to the championship
Soviet foreign minister, Igor Isvoshikov is kidnapped during his visit to Paris for a Marxist organization. They demand that the Soviet Union destroy all the oil fields of Saudi Arabia to end the Western capitalist system.
Shortly before heading Tarsis receives a letter from Christophe de Kerguelen, a colleague of Amary, which reveals that Amary is the secret leader of a terrorist organization that is also put in an attack that killed two friends of Tarshish, and Nuria Soledad. The desire for revenge is therefore a major reason for Tarshish to participate in the championship. During the game feels more and more convinced that Amary is pocketed in the kidnapping.
increases the suspense until the final decisive game in parallel with the clarification of kidnapping that is putting world peace at risk. Christophe de Kerguelen also wants revenge on Amary who has stolen his research project and therefore decided to free the Soviet Premier. Secretly entered the residence where he found the corpse Amary minister in the refrigerator. Hardly escape the pursuers Amary and complains to the police committee. Shortly before his arrest Amary lost world chess championship ...
... 20 pages: Viveca Tallgren [Viveca.tallgren @ mail.dk]
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