On May 5, 1929, in the Alhambra Palace Hotel, which looks even today its imposing Neo-Arabic lines, a banquet tribute offered to Federico Garcia Lorca and actress Margarita Xirgu, for representation in Granada of “Mariana Pineda “(1925), drama based on the life of a local heroine who became the symbol of resistance liberal absolutist restoration of Fernando VII. Among the prominent attendees at the dinner was the composer Manuel de Falla, a great friend of Lorca, with whom he participated in numerous artistic and musical evenings. Posted a year earlier, Gypsy Ballads had already become a bestseller and its author was the most famous of Spain young poet.
“If someday, if God me continues to help, I have glory, half of this glory will of Granada, which formed and shaped this creature that I am: born poet without being able to help, “thanked Garcia Lorca to present
close. relationship between the poet and the city of glorious past is addressed in poet in Granada (2015), the latest book by Ian Gibson, writing in the manner of a travel guide, following the model of the he considers “the most extraordinary guide Spain ever written”: a Handbook for Travellers in Spain and Readers at Home (1845), the English traveler Richard Ford, who had the good fortune to live in the palace . of the Alhambra
from Spain, where he lives and where they are remembering with great force the 80 years of the death of Garcia Lorca and the beginning of the Civil War, the Irish hispanista Ian Gibson says ” my book is a tribute to the ‘homeland’ of Garcia Lorca, indeed wonderful, without which we would not have his work. The city and its surroundings are the root of their world. What I hope is that the book will help people to know you better and, if possible, take the path of Granada. It is not only the city, of course, must also know its Vega with his hometown, Fuente Vaqueros, then Valderrubio, where he lived for several years before his family moved to Granada capital in 1909 “.
aesthetics small
Can you explain what the theory of aesthetics García Lorca Granada?
-Lorca is with .. the Granada who was lost forever in 1492 with the “taking” of the city by Christians and expulsion or forced conversion of its Arab inhabitants and Jews in his concept is a place that then lost his soul said: ” I believe that being of Granada inclines me to sympathetic understanding of the persecuted. The black, Gypsy, Jewish, Moorish all of us. “As for his theory of Granada aesthetics, the figure in the beautiful, in the small, in secluded, in such fine arabesques of the Alhambra. does not like the huge cathedral or the Renaissance palace of Carlos V. And yes the typical house in the hills, the carmen, which comes from the Arabic for vineyard or small interior garden closed to the view of others. Ruben Dario, his teacher, that was in Granada, he caught perfectly in his travel book solar Land , which surely knew.
how influenced the beauty of the Alhambra in sensitivity of Garcia Lorca?
-Extraordinariamente. and understood. I’ve been to the Alhambra day and night, often against the backdrop of the towering Sierra Nevada, and there is nothing comparable in the world. His “discovery “by foreign travelers nineteenth century strongly influenced romanticism. And Lorca, as often said, is a romantic.
what showed” the story of the treasure “, filmed in Granada?
He is a “film” made by Lorca and three friends with snapshots in the Alhambra, I think in 1918, with the poet in the role of guardian of the treasure, whom murder. I’ve seen the five shots in the sequence, I do not know if there were more. One year later, he developed a ceremony in which he lay on the ground and represented his death, burial and slow putrefaction, so convincingly that all the witnesses were horrified. He managed to pass to his own fear, thus freeing them provisionally thereof. Dalí told me it was terrifying: he rose from the floor laughing and went to the quiet bed, While his friends could not sleep! I do not know the root of that obsession represent his death, but throughout his work. Even, there are verses that says he killed … and searched without finding his remains. It’s creepy.
Are you still thinking that Lorca is buried in Alfacar? ¿Advisor search Malaga promoting historian Miguel Caballero?
Yes. I have no part in the current search, although I know the work of Knight and to him personally. I hope the Government of Andalusia allows them to continue working, do not understand the delay. It is very important to follow. If there are remains about 400 meters from where they sought some years ago, we must return to the site of the initial search.
What do you think about the statements “Vanity Fair” Laura Garcia Lorca, the poet’s niece, stating that “what is done with the remains of a person is a matter for his family”? She does not support the search.
‘It’s not normal that all his family is against, like a pineapple, without a single dissenting voice. I think they know more than what they say. There is a possibility that the remains were changed site. Maybe soon we know more about it. On the other hand, no one is asking that the remains are removed from where they are, if the family does not want. We just want to know where they are exactly. Not good for anyone that the poet remains a missing person.
Do you think the poet’s tragic end still bothers Spanish society and prevents full recognition of his work?
-Spain as a state has not yet faced the atrocious unresolved issue of the victims of the Franco regime. Still in ditches and mass graves killed more than 100,000, of which the poet is the most famous. I consider it a shame.
-Who Garcia Lorca read today?
‘I can not speak for Latin America, but I know that in Spain lot is read Lorca and constantly replenished his plays. Currently, interested much its most advanced stage, surreal trend: “Public” and “So spend five years”
“I end my lorquiana task”
Laura García Lorca says the murder of his uncle “was a political crime and that no doubt”, categorically ruling out the hypothesis that he was killed by a homosexual. Are you okay?
-A Lorca hated that publicly defined himself as “the worst bourgeoisie in Spain”. I hated him for his political ideas, well known for being a gay, liberal for his family, his fame, the money he earned with his theater, his gifts … for everything! And there was the plot of villager rancor. We must understand that no one was apolitical in that Spain. Since the premiere of “Yerma” in December 1934, Lorca is considered by rights a sworn enemy. Nor did nothing helped the “Romance of the Spanish Civil Guard.”
-Ediciones B and Penguin Random House reissued the main books that you have written about Garcia Lorca, including his monumental biography (1985-1987). Will updated editions?
-In the case of the biography, is a revised edition from beginning to end. It took me nine months of work since its inception because there are many new materials. Instead, The man who betrayed García Lorca and Lorca-Dalí, the love that could not be not required, luckily, a review so thoroughly.
Do you think the edition of the complete Works of Miguel García Lorca Garcia Posada made for Gutenberg Galaxy can be considered definitive? A critical edition is needed? Would you be willing to work on it?
final -Edition I guess there will never be, but Garcia Posada is arguably the most comprehensive, and critical, to date. No, I would not be willing to work on the preparation of another. With these new editions lorquiana I end my task.
‘What the second part of his biography of Luis Buñuel going?
‘ Unfortunately, there is no such second part. He never got the promised funding by the autonomous community of Aragon. And there is no turning back. I’m sorry, but it is too late.
Do you work on a new book?
Yes, I will make a large book, relaxed, on the Iberian Peninsula, I consider a magical space. Dream, as did Jose Saramago, the Federal Republic Iberian. I’m just another romantic. Within a few days I will start a visit to La Mancha, the land of Don Quixote (I just reread the great novel). I want to start the book there. Then I will go to Portugal, a country almost unknown in Spain. It seems incredible, when two steps.
It’s known his family ties with Chile. Is there a trip in perspective? Have you thought about writing a book about a Chilean poet or the close relationship between Neruda and Lorca?
I was at Santiago two years ago and would love to return, but first I have to finish my adventure book Iberian. As for a book about another poet, I do not think. I need to change course and my current project is giving me a great opportunity. I hope to be able to bring it to fruition before the end of the year. Then we’ll see.
Why García Lorca has permeated both you and become the author who has devoted his entire life?
I began to know his work when he was 18 years and now I just turned 77. I am deeply moved by its subject and its telluric background. Lorca is with those who suffer, his message is profoundly Christian, and he said of himself that he was a “telluric poet.”
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