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Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) es una de las grandes figuras literarias de España, tanto por su obra teatral como poética. Poeta en Nueva York compuesto en los años 1929-1930 Durante su estancia en la Universidad de Columbria y su viaje a Cuba ha sido una de sus obras mas leídas. ... Read more

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La Zapatera Prodigiosa es una farsa simple, de puro tono clasico, donde se describe un espiritu de mujer... y se hace, al mismo tiempo y de manera tierna, un apologo del alma humana... Yo quise expresar en mi Zapatera... la lucha de la realidad con la fantasia (entendiendo por fantasia todo lo que es irrealizable) que existe en el fondo de toda criatura... No hay mas personaje que ella y la masa del pueblo que la circunda con un cinturon de espinas y carcajadas... Lo mas caracteristico de esta simple farsa es el ritmo de la escena, ligado y vivo, y la intervencion de la musica que me sirve para desrealizar la escena y quitar a la gente la idea de que aquello esta pasando de veras, asi como tambien para elevar el plano poetico con el mismo sentido que lo hacian nuestros clasicos (F. Garcia Lorca). Joaquin Forradellas es catedratico de I.N.B. en San Sebastian y ofrece en esta edicion un texto critico, enriquecido con muchos documentos que lo contextualizan y analizando desde muy varias perspectivas que permite una lectura de La Zapatera Prodigiosa sobre el trasfondo de todo el teatro lorquiano. ... Read more

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This bilingual edition (in Spanish and English) collects Jaime Manrique's lyrical and sensual poems about his childhood in Colombia, memories of his family, and his more recent experiences and loves in Manhattan. Musical and romantic, these poems are in the tradition of Pablo Neruda. ... Read more

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In 1926, as a young man of 28 with a growing reputation as an oral poet, Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) toyed with the idea of proving his worth in writing by bringing out a boxed set of three volumes of his verse. Because the Suites, Canciones, and the Poema del cante jondo eventually came out singly (in the case of the Suites, posthumously), readers have not always realised that they formed a single body of work -- one which, Lorca himself was surprised to note, has 'una rarisima unidad', an odd unity of aims and accomplishment. This is poetry which takes up the question of desire in progressively depersonalizing ways, and shows modernism coming into being. Through renunciation, by cutting away the personal and the taboo, Lorca created a poetry that, like no other in Europe, stood between the avant-garde and oral traditions, making their contradictions his truth. ... Read more

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Known primarily as a poet and dramatist, Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca published four books before his early death in the Spanish Civil War. This biography gives an account of his family, his homosexuality and his mysterious death, as well as tracing his literary development. ... Read more

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Lorquiana!
I read this book years ago from cover to cover and I had never even read any Lorca.This book is huge!(500 pages!) But I completed it all.

I think that those interested in the lives of pre-Stonewall gays will find this especially enlightening.Lorca uses Freudian, problematic reasoning for explaining his gayness.Like Gide and many other insecure gays, he harps on feminine gay men.Like Langston Hughes, Yukio Mishima, and again Andre Gide, he was inspired by the homoerotic poetry of Walt Whitman.

In this book, it is implied that Lorca loved Dali and Dali was both repulsed and intrigued by that love.So that scenario of gay man having unrequited love for straight man is played out here.However, in the documentary "Split," the viewer sees Dali courting a she-male.In Manrique's "Eminent M*r*c*n*es," he states that an American man, later in his life, admitted that he and Dali had a sexual relationship.So Gibson's portrayal of Dali as exclusively heterosexual may be inaccurate.

In Lorca's last days, the fascists were taking over Spain and they may have killed him for prejudiced reasons.Now, Spain has a Socialist president who is seriously considering legalizing gay marriage.This book will help to track progress.Lorca may be to Spanish gay men what James Baldwin is to American ones. ... Read more

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