He is arrested in 1967 (in Spain) after writing a dedication considered
"blasphemous". The leader of the international protest during the trial
was Samuel Beckett, who write a "Letter to the judges of Spain in defense of
Arrabal.
He has held the honorary title of "Transcendent Satrape" in the College
of Pataphysics (society founded in 1948 in tribute to Alfred Jarry).
Between the previous named "Satrapes" are René Clair, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst,
Eugène Ionesco, Man Ray, the Marx Brothers, and Boris Vian (founder of the
College).