poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca

[springboksfan]

You do realize, don't you holland, that this is in no way a current event. Please explain how it is political and what impact it may have on us today.

 

[conrad]

Hey, read some of the guy's stuff; even in translation it's worth the effort. The sins of the Franco regime in Spain were many and they cost lots of folks much.

 

[snapcat]

Because of Goula's reasonable and well thought-out post, I hearby retract my "Aretha Franklin Image Found on Piece of Toast" post.

 

[slobone]

Umm... nobody's going to mention that Lorca was gay? And rumored to have had an affair with Salvador Dali. So at least he's on the right website. Maybe Male Celebrities and Gossip?

 

[teadrinker]

Lorca was a great, powerful and major writer, and his death, in part a political event, both because of the events of his time, and because of his being gay, rightly deserves a place on this forum. His writing will never be forgotten; nor should he himself ever be forgotten.

-T.

 

[smelter]

BBC Mundo, Granada, Spain

The first new car I ever purchased was a 1976 Ford Granada. Every time the temperature dipped below freezing, it would start right up, run for about 10 seconds, then shut off ..... never to be restarted again.

Sorry, I had such a bad experience with that car, I couldn't read the rest of your article. I'll try a bit later after my meds kick in.

 

[wonder_boy]

Did he write La Casa De Bernarda Alba? I LOVE that play.

 

[Yves]

Yes, he wrote that in the year of his death, if I remember the date correctly.

It´s good to see the name of Lorca at JUB. "La Casa de Bernarda Alba" (The House of Bernarda Alba) is one of his last plays.
Lorca has been in the news recently due the anniversary of his murder. A film documentary ("Lorca, el mar deja de moverse" - Lorca, the calm sea) directed by Emilio Ruiz Barrachina is supposed to open in September (Spain). According to this new documentary a family feud, and the fact that the writer was a republican, communist and homosexual, are the key factors behind his murder. Like the other 30,000 souls buried across Spain in mass graves, Federico Garcia Lorca was murdered without a trial of any kind. I haven´t seen the film yet but according to some recent articles the House of Bernarda Alba had something to do with his death. According to the film director, the publication of Bernarda Alba stirred destructive feelings within his own family and those feelings contributed to his death in some degree (plus homophobia and civil war). This is a new hipothesis that has been added to an unresolved crime.

Spanish TV (TVE) ran a great special on Lorca recently (Program: "Informe Semanal", Title: ""El crimen fue en Granada"). There are no transcripts online but the program included interviews to members of the familiy, biographers, etc.

Lorca has been in the music news recently. "Ainadamar" an opera by Argentinian born composer Osvaldo Golijov was released by Deutsche Grammophone. Ainadamar - "fountain of tears" in Arabic - is the name of a well near Granada where Federico Garcia Lorca was murdered by fascists in the Spanish civil war in 1936. The opera views the events surrounding Lorca's death through the eyes of the Catalan actress Margarita Xirgu, who collaborated with the writer on a number of his plays. The role of Margarita Xirgu was created for Dawn Upshaw.

Attached is a link to a recent radio interview on Ainadamar:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5406874