Federico García Lorca - The Gypsy Ballads

Special Edition with Study by Christian De Paepe

The Romancero Gitano is one of the most significant lyrical creations of the 20th century. The culmination of Lorca's early aesthetic period, the poet himself defined it as "the poem of Andalusia" and called it gypsy because "the gypsy is the highest, the deepest, the most aristocratic of my country, the most representative of its way and the one who guards the embers, the blood, and the alphabet of Andalusian and universal truth."

It is, however, a book where the Andalusia that is seen is barely expressed, but where the one that is not seen is trembling: an anti-picturesque, anti-folkloric, anti-flamenco book, where the figures serve as ancient backgrounds and where there is only one character as large and dark as a summer sky... Pena .

This volume includes the magnificent edition by Christian De Paepe, recognized as one of the leading Lorca scholars, with a study of the Romancero 's aesthetics and structure and detailed thematic and stylistic annotations. This volume also includes a general introduction by Esperanza Ortega, a rich documentary appendix, and commentaries on the romances.

Book details

Written by: Federico García Lorca

Publisher: Espasa Calpe

Collection: Austral

Spanish

Hardcover: 144 pages

Dimensions: 125 x 190

EAN: 9788467046878

ISBN: 978-84-670-46878