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Informationen zum Autor Poet, playwright, musician and artist, close friend of the great Surrealists Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró and Luis Buñuel, Federico García Lorca was one of the most distinctive and beloved writers of modern times. His writing has inspired generations of writers and artists, from Pablo Neruda to Leonard Cohen and Patti Smith. Born in Andalusia, Spain, in 1898, Lorca studied in Madrid as a young man and soon became prominent in artistic circles; in 1928 his book of Gypsy Ballads catapulted him to literary stardom. He escaped to New York for a year in 1929, where he found he was able to focus on his poetry and immerse himself in the thriving gay culture of Harlem; upon returning to republican Spain he became increasingly politicized, devoting himself to radical works of theatre that rebelled against the bourgeois status quo. Just after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, he was murdered at Granada by Nationalist partisans. He was thirty-eight years old. Klappentext Federico Garc¿Lorca was born into an educated family of small landowners in Fuente Vaqueros in 1898. A poet! dramatist! musician and artist! he attended the university at Granada! where he acquired a fine knowledge of literature. In 1919 he went to the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid and during his long stay there he met all the principal writers! critics and scholars who visited the place! which was then a flourishing centre of cultural liberalism. In 1928 his Gipsy-Ballad Book ( Romancero gitano ) received much public acclaim. In 1929 he went to New York with Fernando de los R¿ and his volume of poems Poet in New York ( Poeta en Nueva York ) was published posthumously in 1940. On his return to republican Spain! he devoted himself to the theatre! as co-director of La Barraca! a government-sponsored student theatrical company that toured the country. He now wrote fewer poems! but these include his masterpiece Lament for Ignacio S¿hez Mej¿ ( Llanto por la muerte de Ignacio S¿hez Mej¿ ! 1935)! a lament for a dead bullfighter. He wrote classical plays! pantomimic interludes! puppet plays! La zapatera prodigiosa (1930) and three tragedies: Blood Wedding ( Bodas de sangre ! 1933)! Yerma (1934) and The House of Bernarda Alba ( La casa de Bernarda Alba ! 1936). Just after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 he was murdered at Granada by Nationalist partisans! in mysterious circumstances. Zusammenfassung Features a poem expressing tortured feelings of alienation and dislocation. This book also offers translations of the poet's letters as well as a lecture he gave about this work. It is illustrated with archive photographs....
