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The product of fourteen years of research, exclusive access to more than a hundred letters, and firsthand interviews, an illustrated biography traces the life and work of Spain's greatest modern poet, up to his death in the Spanish Civil War.
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Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) was not yet 40 when he was executed by Falangists during the Spanish Civil War, yet he already towered over literature in Spain. He was arguably his generation's greatest poet and playwright. Although Lorca was best known in his lifetime for works like Gypsy Ballads and Blood Wedding, which expressed the soulful intensity of his native Andalusia, this well-researched, probing biography reminds readers that he was both cosmopolitan and unpredictable as an artist and a man. Despite his privileged background, Lorca was "a poet of the people who viewed poetry as something that walks along the streets," someone who wrote as naturally as he breathed and loved music and drawing nearly as much as poetry and drama. Leslie Stainton, an American scholar who lived in Spain for several years while researching this book, perceptively analyzes Lorca's homosexuality, his left-wing political views, and his artistic convictions, painting an intriguing picture of a man whose strong feelings and beliefs were tempered by a dislike of being pinned down. Though judiciously critical in evaluating Lorca's work, the author conveys with force her appreciation of his ability to forge new language for the exploration of age-old themes: "the capriciousness of time, the impossibility of love, the phantoms of identity, art, childhood, sex, and death." --Wendy Smith
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Leslie Stainton has written for numerous publications and scholarly journals, including The New York Times and the Bulletin of the Federico Garca Lorca Foundation. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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- PublisherFarrar Straus & Giroux
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0374190976
- ISBN 13 9780374190972
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages579
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