Federico García Lorca (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ian Gibson
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1898-1936
- Setting: Spain, New York, Cuba, and Argentina
- Principal Characters: Federico García Lorca, Salvador Dali, Lois Bunuel, Rafael Alberti, Ignacio Sanchez Mejias, Margarita Xirgu, Rafael Rodriguez Rapun, Pablo Neruda
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Homosexuality or homosexuals, Literature, Poetry or poets, Writing, Lesbianism or lesbians, Assassination, Cuba or Cubans, Drama or dramatists, Civil wars, Spain or Spanish people, Fascism
- Locales: New York, Spain, Cuba, Argentina
It has been suggested that Federico García Lorca has become the best known and most frequently translated Spanish writer primarily because of the circumstances of his death. As a victim of the Fascist forces in the first days of the Spanish Civil War, García Lorca quickly achieved the status of martyr. A half century after his death, his name still evokes the turmoil and conflict that would continue through the years of World War II.
Outside the Hispanic world, interest in García Lorca’s life and work has always been dominated by the subject of his homosexuality and the...
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