Federico García Lorca

Antonio Sobejano-Morán

Paola Bianco

Focus student edition of Federico Garcia Lorca's 1945 modernist drama centers on the events in a house in Andalusia during a period of mourning, in which Bernarda Alba wields total control over her five daughters. Complete Spanish text with notes, introduction and discussion questions.

La Casa de Bernarda Alba

Romancero Gitano

A reissue of a landmark poetry volume with a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner W. S. Merwin. Bilingual.

The Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca

Written while Federico García Lorca was a student at Columbia University in 1929-30, Poet in New York is one of the most important books Lorca produced, and certainly one of the most important books ever published about New York City. Indeed, it is a book that changed the direction of poetry in both Spain and the Americas, a pathbreaking and defining work of modern literature. In honor of the poet's centenary, the celebrated Lorca scholar Christopher Maurer has revised this strange, timeless, and vital book of verse, using much previously unavailable or untranslated material: Lorca's own manuscript of the entire book; witty and insightful letters from the poet to his family describing his feelings about America and his temporary home there (a dorm room in Columbia's John Jay Hall); the annotated photographs which accompany those letters; and a prose poem missing from previous editions. Complementing these new addtions are extensive notes and letters, revised versions of all the poems, and an interpretive lectures by Lorca himself. An excellent introduction to the work of one of the key figures of modern poetry, this bilingual edition of Poet in New York is also a thrilling exposition of the American city in the 20th century.

Poet in New York

Yerma

La casa de Bernarda Alba cierra la trilogia de tragedias iniciada con Bodas de sangre y continuada con Yerma. La obra transcurre en un ambito rural y tiene como protagonistas a una docena de mujeres. Pero el trasunto nada tiene que ver con el costumbrismo ni con la psicologia femenina. El verdadero drama surge de la contraposicion entre la ley clara que supuestamente rige en el mundo, y la ley oscura, o de la sangre, que ata con sus lazos inamovibles a quienes residen en ese hogar significativamente descrito por Lorca como 'muy blanco'. En el segundo acto, el hogar adquiere tonos sombrios, que se acentuaran en el tercero, decididamente negro-luto, y que tiene su contrapunto expresivo en la muerte de Adela, la mujer que transgredio las leyes de la sociedad y que paga con su vida tal atrevimiento.

La casa de Bernarda Alba

A revised edition of this major writer's complete poetical work "And I who was walking with the earth at my waist, saw two snowy eagles and a naked girl. The one was the other and the girl was neither." --from "Qasida of the Dark Doves" Federico García Lorca is the greatest poet of twentieth-century Spain and one of the world's most influential modernist writers. Christopher Maurer, a leading Lorca scholar and editor, has substantially revised FSG's earlier edition of the collected poems of this charismatic and complicated figure, who--as Maurer says in his illuminating Introduction--"spoke unforgettably of all that most interests us: the otherness of nature, the demons of personal identity and artistic creation, sex, childhood, and death."

Collected Poems

'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.

The Dialogue of Two Snails

Ildefonso Manuel Gil

Como repetidamente declaró Federico García Lorca, "Yerma" es una tragedia con un solo tema (la mujer estéril) y un carácter en progresivo desarrollo. A través del largo tiempo dramático, Yerma lucha desesperadamente con su verdad, que cada vez se vuelve más conflictiva y no ceja en ello hasta consumarla. La resolución final -la muerte del marido- es la última defensa de su sueño imposible y una afirmación rotunda de su destino trágico ante la ciega fatalidad.

poema trágico en tres actos y seis cuadros

"B!Ay, que limon, limon / de la limonera! / B!Que apetitosa / talabartera!"La Zapatera prodigiosa (1930) cuenta la historia de un matrimonio que acaba de formalizarse entre un hombre, ya mayor, zapatero, y una muchacha de 18 anos. La diferencia de edad y l

La Zapatera Prodigiosa

La poes�a de Lorca, encumbrada en su Romancero gitano, recorre paisajes, hurga en tradiciones y denuncia injusticias con la maestr�a de quien ha sabido utilizar la pluma como pocos, sin claudicar al paso del tiempo. Sin lugar a dudas el Romancero gitano no es solo el gran libro de poes�a del canon lorquiano sino tambi�n una de las obras po�ticas m�s importantes de la cultura occidental, que ha convertido al poeta granadino en una de las figuras m�s destacadas de nuestra literatura, junto a Quevedo, G�ngora o Juan Ram�n Jim�nez. A lo largo de los dieciocho romances que conforman el libro, Lorca hace gala del simbolismo que tanto le caracteriza -la luna, el agua, el cuchillo, la sangre, su mundo gitano, �el barco sobre la mar� y �el caballo en la monta�a�- con el que ha fascinado, o casi hipnotizado, a generaciones de lectores de todo el mundo. Salvador Dal� escribi�... �Federiquito, en el libro tuyo que me lo he llevado por esos sitios minerales de por aqu� a leer, te he visto a ti, la bestiecita que eres, bestiecita er�tica, con tu sexo y tus peque�os ojos de tu cuerpo, y tus pelos y tu miedo de la muerte, y tus ganas de que si te mueres se enteren todos los se�ores.� ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Federico Garc�a Lorca wrote the Gypsy Ballads between 1924 and 1927. When the book was published it caused a sensation in the literary world. Drawing on the traditional Spanish ballad form, Lorca described his Romancero Gitano as 'the poem of Andaluc�a...A book that hardly expresses visible Andalusia at all, but where hidden Andaluc�a trembles'. Seeking to relate the nature of his proud and troubled region of Spain, he drew on a traditional gypsy form; yet the homely, unpretentious style of these poems barely disguises the undercurrents of conflicted identity never far from Lorca's work.

Romancero Gitano/ The Gypsy Ballads of Garcia Lorca

Carmen Zapata

Michael Dewell

Newly repackaged, three plays by Federico García Lorca In these three plays, Federico García Lorca's acknowledged masterpieces, he searched for a contemporary mode of tragedy and reminded his audience that dramatic poetry--or poetic drama--depends less on formal convention that on an elemental, radical outlook on human life. His images are beautiful and exact, but until now no translator had ever been able to make his characters speak unaffectedly on the American stage. Michael Dewell of the National Repertory Theatre and Carmen Zapata of the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts have created these versions expressly for the stage. The results, both performable and readable, have been thoroughly revised for this edition, which has an introduction by Christopher Maurer, the general editor of the Complete Poetical Works of García Lorca.

Blood Wedding; Yerma; The House of Bernarda Alba

Three Plays

Theatre critics often group Blood Wedding with Lorca's Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba as the "rural trilogy".

Three Tragedies

The revolutionary genius of Spanish theatre, Lorca brought vivid and tragic-poetry to the stage with these powerful dramas. All appeal for freedom and sexual and social equality, and are also passionate defences of the imagination.

The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays

Fruto capital del universo lorquiano, esta obra sin parang�n recoge la historia de Bernarda Alba, enviudada por segunda vez a los sesenta a�os, y de sus hijas, obligadas a sumirse en un luto que desencadenar� la tragedia. Considerada la obra m�s madura de Lorca, La casa de Bernarda Alba cierra la llamada trilog�a de la tragedia -formada tambi�n por Bodas de sangre y Yerma-. Su car�cter realista y la opresi�n en el pecho que se siente ante la represi�n de unas mujeres atrapadas en un fr�o infierno de luto, celos, silencio y sue�os truncados se ha interpretado como un presagio de los oscuros tiempos que se avecinaban y en los que el propio Lorca se convertir�a en una v�ctima prematura. No obstante, la presente edici�n contrapone este texto tan magn�fico como terrible a Los sue�os de mi prima Aurelia, una comedia inacabada inspirada en la infancia del poeta y dramaturgo, que nos demuestra que no hab�aabandonado la iron�a y el sentido del humor. Vicente Aleixandre dijo... �Su coraz�n no era ciertamente alegre. Era capaz de toda la alegr�a del Universo; pero su sima profunda, como la de todo gran poeta, no era la de la alegr�a. Quienes le vieron pasar por la vida como un ave llena de colorido, no le conocieron.� ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Bernarda Alba is orthodox, overbearing, and single minded. She has complete control over her five daughters until the wealth of her eldest daughter, Angustias, attracts a suitor. Her other daughters are jealous that Angustias--who is almost forty and is homely and sickly--is getting married and escaping the tyrannical reach of their mother. All of Bernarda's other daughters dream of escaping that house too, and some of them are willing to do anything to get away. Tensions rise as the sisters forsake their family ties and compete against each other for the one thing that can save them from their mother's rule: a man.

La obra de Federico García Lorca, el poeta más popular de la lírica española del siglo XX, logra reunir en su producción caracteres tan dispares como tradición y vanguardia, gracia popular en el ritmo y metáfora audaz, densa de simbolismo. Esta Antología recoge, en textos depurados de acuerdo con las ediciones más rigurosas de sus obras, los mejores poemas de este poeta único por tantos conceptos en el panorama de la lírica española.

Federico García Lorca

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