Lorca After Life (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300257861)

A reflection on Federico Garc? 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."--Andr駸 Zamora, Vanderbilt University

There is something fundamentally unfinished about the life and work of Federico Garc? Lorca (1898-1936), and not simply because his life ended abruptly. No? Valis reveals how this quality gives shape to the ways in which he has been continuously reimagined 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.

Author: Noel Valis
ISBN-10: 0300257864
ISBN-13: 9780300257861
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/26/2022
Pages: 456
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.59h x 6.54w x 1.42d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2024