Федерико Гарсиа Лорка — библиография

Bodas de sangre esta basada en un hecho real que ocurrio en un cortijo de Nijar, Almeria, en 1928. Una novia, el dia de su boda, se deja arrastrar por la pasion y escapa con su novio anterior desencadenando una tragedia «casi animal». Este drama cargado de componentes miticos, legendarios y, por otro lado, tan andaluces, sirvio de punto de inspiracion a Lorca. El…

My heart brims with billows and minnows of shadows and silver Beautiful, brutal, strange and lovely: this is Lorca reborn, in a selection of previously unpublished pieces and masterful new translations. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its…

'There has been no more terribly acute critic of America than this steel-conscious and death-conscious Spaniard, with his curious passion for the modernities of nickel and tinfoil and nitre . . .' So wrote Conrad Aiken of Lorca's violent response to the New York he encountered as a student at Columbia University in 1929 and 1930. Born and brought up in Andalusia,…

In The House of Bernarda Alba, a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and needs. The other plays here also portray female characters whose desires are tragically and violently frustrated: a woman’s longing for a child in Yerma, and a bride’s yearning for her lover in Blood Wedding. All appeal for freedom and…