The last letter he wrote was for Federico García Lorca Juan Ramirez de Lucas (1917-2010), a boy of 19 who aspired to be an actor, with whom she had an affair and who planned to go to Mexico. They had met in Madrid, where the boy studied Public Administration and was part of Anfistora Theatre Club, which tended to represent the plays of the poet and playwright from Granada. They kept their relationship a secret, especially homophobia that prevailed in their families, and they thought that by going to Mexico, far too ideological tension that surrounded them, their personal and professional life would improve in all aspects. But in 1936 Spain was of age someone until you turned 21 years. So to travel, Ramirez de Lucas needed authorization from their parents. The couple could have escaped less falsifying documents, as Lorca had contacts needed to do something. However, they hoped that their loved ones would accept the relationship and would not put any obstacle to leave the country. While García Lorca went to Granada to finalize travel arrangements, Ramirez de Lucas arrived in Albacete in order to face his family.
To encourage him, the morning of July 18, 1936, still know that General Francisco Franco had already started the National Uprising (the coup that would trigger the Civil War), the author of blood Wedding wrote a letter to her boyfriend. Quickly he folded it and put it in an envelope along with a jasmine flower and took her to the post office. Four days later, thanks to communications between the “Republican” zone and “national” had not yet been interrupted, the letter came into the hands of Juan Ramirez de Lucas. “John, we need to laugh again. To me also happened fat things, not to say terrible, and I have ever fought with grace, “reads the document stored in a wooden box for more than 70 years, released in 2012 by the Sisters boy ended devoted to criticism of art and architecture and, 80 years ago now, was thwarted their life project next to García Lorca. For days after sending that letter, was arrested by the coup and finally shot the morning of August 18, 1936 “by red and fag.”
In the last four decades after that during the Franco dictatorship was an “uncomfortable issue” and, therefore, little discussed, each story on the life, work, archiving, loves, shooting and searching for the remains of Federico Garcia Lorca shakes Spain and reverberates level international, because it is a figure that is “the most popular of the Spanish literature of the twentieth century” for many.
Ian Gibson, an Irish colorao Spanish nationalized medium leads century dealing with García Lorca. He learned our language at Trinity College Dublin, his hometown, and the day when he ran into a bookstore with a copy of Gypsy Ballads felt there was a special connection between Ireland and Andalusia. He first came to Spain in 1957 and became fascinated with a “full of secrets and enigmas” country. Six years later he returned and spent some time in Granada gathering information on García Lorca, which allowed him to write the embryo of what later would become the most quoted biography of the poet. In 1978 he settled in Spain where, besides dealing with the author of The House of Bernarda Alba , also tracked the lives of Salvador Dalí, Antonio Machado and Luis Buñuel. “It could have been Baudelaire, but it was Frederick who ran over me with his glare. I can not say exactly why. It was very intimate, very deep, which his poetry revealed to me. It had to do with the atavistic, something primitive, instinctive. Because it is an eminently telluric poet. It must be that taught me so much to detect and want to break free of the puritanical atmosphere I experienced as a child in a Protestant family surrounded by a Catholic country “now reflects the Spanish scholar who has written Life, Passion and Death Federico Garcia Lorca, Lorca-Dalí, the love that could not be, Ramon Ruiz Alonso. The man who betrayed García Lorca, Lorca and the gay world and Poet in Granada.
When in 2008, protected by the Law of Historical Memory, which allowed the search for the remains of victims Civil War and the Franco dictatorship, judge Baltasar Garzon ordered the exhumation of the mass grave where it was suspected that he had been buried Federico Garcia Lorca, the researchers used as a guide data Gibson said in Life, passion and death of Federico Garcia Lorca , obtained thanks to the testimony of Manuel Castilla Blanco, alias “Manolillo the communist” who claimed to be the gravedigger of the poet and the three others with which they shot him, Dioscorus Galindo , school teacher, Francisco Galadí and Joaquín Cabezas, banderilleros: in a canyon located between the towns of Granada Víznar and Alfacar, under an olive tree. There, in 2009, excavations were carried out in an area of almost 300 meters and … no bone was not found.
But the failure of the search, what really surprised at that time public opinion was that the Lorca family objected “strongly” to the exhumation. In a press release they said they respected the rights of all victims of that period, but did not want the exhumation become a “media show” and wanted the remains of Garcia Lorca repose forever in that canyon. In 2014, however, another excavation was carried out in the same place in the province of Granada, but the work was half no reasons were clarified (it transpired that was because winter snow hampered the work and also the budget for the cause was over) and therefore also no satisfactory results.
by way of consolation, a year later, in 2015, he released a report that left no doubt about political responsibility of Franco’s army in the arrest and murder of writer (accused there of “socialist, Freemason and homosexual”), which is very important because, during the nearly 40 years of dictatorship, the government of Generalissimo sidestepped again and again their involvement . “These papers give an idea of the problem posed by the death of Lorca for the Franco regime from the moment it occurred. If the police report had been reached to publish then, would highlight that what they had said so far, they had nothing to do, it was a dead over armed clashes, was false, “says Ian Gibson.
it is planned that this 2016, the year of the eight decades of the squad is made which will be the third excavation to search for the remains of the man who took the stage to much of Spain with his company La Barraca : a male, 1.68 tall, with a defect in the feet and a larger skull than normal. If all goes as expected, next September a team of forensic finally find their bones within 160 square meters of dry ground. This time will be based on the book The Last Days of García Lorca , written by Carretero Dios Eduardo Molina Fajardo, where it is given greater importance to the testimonies of those were related to execution. So now the place chosen to put to work the excavator is about 400 meters from the olive tree referred to by “Manolillo the communist”.
“If this time we are there, I will not feel envy or resentment. I should be exceedingly glad they appeared the remains of Lorca, although it was not on the site that to me said Manuel Castilla me 50 years ago, something which incidentally I still believe. But if they’re not there, you have to keep looking. I think the most likely site would be 150 meters from where excavated in 2009. I have reviewed my notes and recordings and still think it is buried close to Alfacar, but I have no objection to investigate other possibilities. You have to follow all leads, “adds Ian Gibson. However, the Lorca family has reiterated once again its wish that the remains stay there. In theory, one thing would be to find the remains of the poet and other exhume, because for the latter’s family authorization would be required. But the Andalusian authorities have clarified that in case of finding them, they would act “ex officio” because it is their duty to identify everything they encounter, “for the benefit of historical memory”.
While that happens, the heirs of Lorca, led by the niece, Laura Garcia Lorca, have been embroiled in another controversy: the control file poet and a building of 4 000 500 square meters, built in the heart of Granada, a few steps from its very old cathedral to house the Federico García Lorca Centre. The architectural work (literally a “white elephant” because it is a tower of that color, which contrasts with the style of the old town of the Alhambra) at a cost of 25 million dollars and would be opened exactly one year. But he questioned the management of the family, who did not say what was destined a part of provided by the Spanish State to lift the building and also refused to move there manuscripts, drawings, musical scores, books budget artworks that belonged to the author of Yerma , valued at around 22 million acquis. There were rumors, denied by Laura García Lorca, that wanted to sell all that to any US university. Therefore, the Ministry of Culture, through the Community of Madrid, promptly declared the Fund García Lorca as a Cultural Interest. Thus, the legacy was “protected” now can not be sold or leave Spain. The work of Federico Garcia Lorca becomes public domain and, by law, the heirs will no longer receive money by copyright.
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