Lorca After Life

A reflection on Federico Garcìa Lorca's life, his haunting death, and the fame that reinvigorated the marvelous in the modern world  "A galaxy of critical insights into the cultural shock waves circling and crisscrossing Lorca's execution and his unknown resting place, there is not a single book on Lorca like this one."-Andrés Zamora, Vanderbilt University   There is something fundamentally unfinished about the life and work of Federico Garcìa Lorca (1898-1936), and not simply because his life ended abruptly. Noël Valis reveals how this quality gives shape to the ways in which he has been continuously re-imagined since his death. Lorca's execution at the start of the Spanish Civil War was not only horrific but transformative, setting in motion many of the poet's afterlives. He is intimately tied to both an individual and a collective identity, as the people's poet, a gay icon, and fabled member of a dead poets' society. The specter of his violent death continues to haunt everything connected to Lorca, fueling the desire to fill in the gaps in the poet's biography.

ISBN:	9780300257861
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Imprint:	Yale University Press
Published date:	28 Jun 2022
DEWEY:	868.6209
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xi, 439
Weight:	772g
Height:	165mm
Width:	244mm
Spine width:	36mm

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