Federico García Lorca

Biography

After several last years with Grenade, it makes the decision that it is necessary for him to go to live in Madrid to meet success finally. It went to Madrid where he became the friend of Luis Buñuel, El Salvador Dalí and Sanchez Mazas, among those who would become influential artists in Spain. There, it met also Gregorio Martínez Sierra, the director of the Teatro Eslava, with the invitation of which it wrote and put in scene his first piece of poetry, El maleficio of the mariposa ( the Evil spell of the butterfly ), in 1919 - 20. It puts in scene the impossible love between a Cafard and a butterfly, with many insects in support, but it was unfortunately the object of mockery of the public, and stopped after four representations. That cools the passion of Lorca for the Théâtre for the remainder of its career - he claimed later in 1927 that Mariana Pineda was its first part.

During the few years which followed it implied more and more in its art and the Spanish avant-garde. He published three other collections of poems, of which Romancero Gitano (1928), its most known collection of poems.

However, towards the end of the Years 1920, Lorca was victim of a depression, exacerbated by an anguish due to the growing difficulty to hide its Homosexualité with his/her friends and his family. This disparity between its success as author and his private life reached his paroxysm during the collaboration of the two surrealist ones, Dalí and Buñuel, for the film a Andalusian dog (1929) that Lorca interpreted, perhaps by error, like an allusion, even an attack in its opposition. At the same time, its intense relation, impassioned but nonreciprocal, with the Sculpteur Emilio Aladrén crumbled when this last met his future wife. Conscious of these problems (but perhaps not of their causes) the family of Lorca arranged itself to make him make a long voyage to the the United States of America in 1929 - 30.

This stay of Lorca, particularly at the time of the passage to New York - its first experiment of an democratic society, but that he regarded as dominated by a crawling commercialism and the social oppression of certain ethnicities - acts like a catalyst for some of its most radical work. Its collection of poems, Poeta in Nueva York , explores its alienation and its loneliness through some poetic techniques graphically experimental, and the two parts Así that pasen cinco años and El público which was regarded as very in advance for their time - moreover El público was not published before the end of the Années 1970.

Its return in Spain in 1930 coincided with the fall of the Dictature of Miguel Primo de Rivera and the re-establishment of the République. In 1931 Lorca was named director of the company of theater subsidized coed, Barraca , whose mission was to make rounds in the primarily rural provinces to present the traditional Répertoire. He then wrote the rural trilogy of Bodas of sangre (“Weddings of blood”), Yerma and put It of Bernarda Alba ( the House of Bernarda Alba ).

When the civil war burst in 1936, it left Madrid for Grenade, even if it were conscious that it went towards a death almost some in a city considered to have the most preserving Oligarchie of Andalusia. It was shot there by Rebelle S anti-republicans and its body was thrown in a Common grave to Víznar. The mode of Franco decided the total ban of its works until in 1953 when Obras supplemented (very censured) was published. It was only with the death of Free in 1975 that the life and the death of Lorca could be discussed freely.

Nowadays a statue of Lorca is in obviousness on the Plaza de Santa Anna in Madrid.

Major works

Poetry

Impress there paisajes (“Impressions and landscapes”, 1918): Prose.

Canciones (“Songs”, 1927)
Primer romancero gitano (“First romancero gipsy”, 1928)
Libro of poemas (“Book of poems”, 1931)
Poema LED lays jondo (“Poem of the lays jondo ”, 1931)
Primeras canciones (“First songs”, 1936)
Poeta in Nueva York (“Poet in New York”, published in 1940)
Romance of the luna, luna (“Romance of the moon, the moon”, in 1924)

publishes

Theater

El Maleficio of the mariposa (“the Evil spell of the butterfly”: written in 1919-20, creation in 1920)
Mariana Pineda (written in 1923-25, creation in 1927)
will zapatera It prodigiosa (“Savetière extraordinary”: writing in 1926-30, creation in 1930)
Amor de Don Perlimpín idiot Belisa in known jardín (“Loves of Gift Perlimpín with Belise in its garden”: writing in 1928, creation in 1933)
Bodas of sangre (“Weddings of blood”: written in 1932, creation in 1933)
Yerma (written in 1934, creation in 1934)
Doña Rosita will soltera it (“Doña Rosita, the single person”: writing in 1935, creation in 1935)
Retablillo de Don Cristóbal (“Play of Gift Cristóbal”: writing in 1931, creation in 1935)
Los títeres of Cachiporra (“the Puppet and the club”: written in 1928, creation in 1937)
Así that pasen cinco años (“When five years pass”: written in 1931, creation in 1945)
put It of Bernarda Alba (“the House of Bernarda Alba”: writing in 1936, creation in 1945)
El público (“Public”: writing in 1930-1936, creation in 1972)
Comedia sin título (“Comedy without title”: writing in 1936, creation in 1986)

Short plays

El paseo of Buster Keaton (“trotts It Buster Keaton”, 1928)
the doncella, el marinero there el estudiante (“the young lady, the sailor and the student”, 1928)

Film scripts

Viaje with the luna (“Voyage to the moon”, 1929)

Quotations

“There is not a child as one has a pink bunch. ” Federico Garcia Lorca - Extract of Yerma

“Each woman has blood for four or five children and when it does not have any, it changes into poison. ” Federico Garcia Lorca - Extract of Yerma

“To be born woman is worst punishments. ” Federico Garcia Lorca - the house of Bernada Alba

“Nothing is more alive than a memory. ” Federico Garcia Lorca

“The stone is a back made to carry time. ” Federico Garcia Lorca - Darmangeat

External bonds

Lorca on CyberSpain.com with photographs
Biography on boppin.com with photographs and translations of poems

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