Federico García Lorca
Author
Series
Poems volume 3
Language
English
Description
The work of Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain's greatest modern poet, has long been admired for its emotional intensity and metaphorical brilliance. Few poets take us more directly and memorably to what Lorca described as "the dark root of the scream", the terrain of the duende, where inspiration delivers a new poetic reality and "intelligence" discovers its limitations. For many years, until the recent publication of FSG's Collected Poems, English readers'...
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[1963]
Language
English
Description
Garcia Lorca's position as one of the few geniuses of the modern theatre was firmly established in the English-speaking world with his Three tragedies. Here, with an introduction by the dramatist's brother, Francisco Garcia Lorca, are five of his "comedies," in the authorized translations, extensively revised to reflect recent Lorca scholarship and to convey the sparkle, freshness, and magic of the original Spanish. "The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife"...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 114
Language
English
Description
Presents the Spanish text and English translation of Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias as well as poems selected from works including Romancero Gitano, Canciones, and Poeta en Nueva York.
10) Four major plays
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
'I have made a terrible discovery ... I have not yet been born ... I live off borrowed substance; what I have within me is not mine.' In his four last plays Federico Garcia Lorca offered his disturbed and disturbing personal vision to Spanish audiences of the 1930s - unready, as he thought them, for the sexual frankness and surreal expression of his more experimental work. The ill-fated lovers of Blood Wedding, the desolate Yerma, the fading spinster...
15) Bodas de sangre
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
An adaptation of Lorca's noted tragedy of passion and vengeance, in which a bride and an unhappily married man are caught up in a feud and a misadventure of murder and desire, also includes background information on its context and meaning.
Author
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"La tragedia de la pasión amorosa, las rivalidades familiares, la esterilidad, la represión sexual y la muerte son el hilo vertebrador de Bodas de sangre, Yerma y La casa de Bernarda Alba, las tres obras que conforman el ciclo por el que Federico García Lorca ha sido más celebrado como dramaturgo. Una trilogía rural en la que la mujer, el campo andaluz abrasado por el sol y los instintos son los grandes protagonistas que cobran nueva vida en...
