From Irish-born critic Gibson (The Assassination of Federico Garcia
Lorca), who has lived in Spain for many years: a long-awaited major
life of the Spanish poet and dramatist, bound to remain the
definitive biography for quite some time. Gibson had the
cooperation of Garci'a Lorca's surviving family and friends - a
vast network of sources - but he acknowledges the difficulty of
researching the life of a Spanish-speaking homosexual artist.
Garci'a Lorca's sexuality is treated in the straightforward manner
befitting a writer whose major works deal with themes of sex and
thwarted passion: Blood Wedding and Yerma, among others. The fact
that Garcia Lorca is the most-translated Spanish author, and one of
the world's best-loved poets, stands in stark contrast to the large
gaps of information about his private life. Gibson resolves this
problem as much as possible, including the most authoritative
accounts yet on Garcia Lorca's travels to New York, Cuba, Buenos
Aires, and a little-known sojourn in Vermont. The author evokes a
passionate if somewhat tragic figure of a multitalented artist:
Garcia Lorca was very much the performing poet as well as an
accomplished guitarist and pianist. Art and film buffs will be
interested in the professional and personal jealousies of the
intense triangle of Garcia Lorca, Salvador Dali, and Luis Bunuel.
Gibson gives a thorough airing to the controversies surrounding the
early surrealist film Un Chien andalou, and to the poet's
passionate relationship with Dale Garcia Lorca lived during the
most turbulent times of modern Spain, and, as Gibson demonstrates,
was a victim of those times. The poet was arrested and executed by
the Fascists, who had just taken Granada, in August 1936: Garcia
Lorca was 38. A rich, well-crafted biography of a fascinating
artist. (Kirkus Reviews)
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.
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