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hero who made Arkas famous with the public and who brought him universal
acknowledgement made his appearance at the beginning of the 1980's.
Nevertheless, we read his adventures as if they had been created
today. Insecure and unstable, neurotic and fanciful, always ready
to fall into sarcastic monologues full of ironic self-criticism
and labyrinthine fantasies, the rooster is by no means the symbol
of masculinity one might expect, the unrestrained male who imposes
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A born loser in questions of love, he
finds his symbolic antagonist in the pig, an excellent portrait
of the cynical 'ugly-but-seductive' pragmatist who conquers the
hens/women precisely because he has no inhibitions. The dialogues,
sometimes venomous and sometimes with an underlying sensitivity,
into which the 'rational' worm is introduced as a catalyst, are
such excellent examples of male -but also female- psychology that
they serve as a rich source of quotations, like pieces from an
anthology.
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