Lorca - a Dream of LifeWith a rare blend of grace, warmth, and scholarship, Leslie Stainton raises the stakes of our appreciation for the greatest of Spain's modern poets, Federico Garca Lorca. Drawing on fourteen years of research; more than a hundred letters unknown to prior biographers; exclusive interviews with Lorca's friends, family, and acquaintances; and dozens of newly discovered archival material, Stainton has brought her subject to life as few writers can. She describes his carefree childhood in rural Andalusia; his residencies in Madrid and Granada, then in New York, Havana, and Buenos Aires; his potent interaction with other Spanish artists, such as Salvador Dal, Luis Buuel, and the composer Manuel de Falla; and, finally, Stainton shows how Lorca's marginal political activity during the Spanish Civil War still cost him his life. Throughout, Stainton meticulously but unobtrusively relates the oeuvre to the life. Her biography is quickly becoming the standard one-volume work on the poet. |
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| 1877 | |
| 1881 | |
| 1896 | |
| 1914 | |
Crucible 191718 | |
Debut 191820 | |
Portrait of Youth 192021 | |
Falla 192123 | |
Audience 193031 | |
Republic 1931 | |
A Peoples Theater 193132 | |
Applause and Glory 193233 | |
Voice of Love 1933 | |
Our America 193334 | |
Sad Breeze in the Olive Groves 1934 | |
Revolution 193435 | |
Garden of Possibilities 192324 | |
Dalí 192425 | |
Incorrigible Poet 192627 | |
Celebrity 1927 | |
Madness of Breeze and Trill 1928 | |
Rain from the Stars 192829 | |
New World 19291930 | |
Spanish America 1930 | |
The Dream of Life 1936 | |
Fountain 1936 | |
Epilogue | |
Acknowledgments | |
Notes | |
Theater of Poets 1935 | |
A Note on the Author | |
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