Federico Garcia Lorca

Tobias Tak

Federico García Lorca is one of Spain's foremost cultural and literary figures. In 1927, he published his masterpiece Canciones, a volume of lyrical poetry. Tobias Tak transformed twenty of these poems into a series of richly detailed and inventive comics. This collection will appeal to lovers of visual art, graphic novels, and poetry, and aims to bring the colorful and atmospheric landscape of Lorca's work to a new audience. Includes an introduction by Lorca scholar, editor, and translator Christopher Maurer (The Collected Poems of Lorca).

Of Federico Garcia Lorca

Canciones

Marissa Davis

Amazing, magical, just so good. The art was so beautiful. The words told a wonderful story. It was almost like it was told thru a poetry like story of love and adventure. I lovd this whole thing the story, the polt and the characters. I loved that it was written in 2 languages.

Lucía RG

*I was kindly sent this in exchange for an honest review via Netgalley*

 “Por tu amor me duele el aire, el corazón y el sombrero” 
vs
“Because I love you, the air, my heart and my hat hurt me”. 

Bilingual edition of Lorca’s songs (or Canciones, in Spanish).

Thank god this is a bilingual edition because I would’ve hated to miss the original poems. I think the translator did a very good job with Lorca’s poems, but translating poetry is always so hard, thus the Frost quote “Poetry is what gets lost in translation”. The essence of the poems is there, but the rhymes (as it is obvious) are missing, the syntax differs in each language, and the general rhythm of the poem changes too. 

It is super interesting to see the translator’s word choices, especially when a term exists in one language but not in the other. 
The illustrations are gorgeous although some of them are quite eerie.

Canciones Of Federico Garcia Lorca

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