First Book of Gypsy Ballads: International English Edition - Couverture souple

Garcia Lorca, Federico

 
9781648090028: First Book of Gypsy Ballads: International English Edition
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1648090028 ISBN 13 : 9781648090028
Editeur : Omnilex Media, 2021

Synopsis

Prepare to be mesmerized by the genius of Federico García Lorca as he paints for us with poetry an almost surreal tableau of humanity and inhumanity.

Lorca described his poetic study of human nature as an intricate retablo of southern Spain. On the surface it depicts the daily struggles of a marginalized people, but beneath the surface there is so much more. In these eighteen poems Lorca illustrates for us with words and lyrical incantations the daily interactions of the oppressors and the oppressed.

Here we have on display the seven deadly sins (and three last things!) that Hieronymus Bosch explored hundreds of years earlier with oil paint. You will witness the:

  • lust (Luxuria) of The Cheatin' Wife and her gypsy lover; and the
  • dark sorrow (Tristitia) of the loveless Soledad Montoya, the abandoned girl of the Dreamwalking Ballad, and the conflicted Gypsy Nun. You will be assaulted by the
  • greed (Avaritia) of the Sons of Benamejí as they murder a flamboyant gypsy for his shoes and jewelry, and the
  • wrath (Ira) of knife-wielding rival gangs as they skirmish and kill each other for nothing but
  • pride (Superbia).

Lorca then saves his best for the Spanish Civil Guard, symbol of ignorance, brute power, and police oppression as he rails against their

  • sloth (Acedia),
  • gluttony (Gula), and
  • vanity (Vanagloria...)

while they terrorize the peasants of the Andalusian countryside with their guns and raze whole villages in their fury.

Lorca knew what might come--he was a marked man--but he did not flinch or pull his punches. Saints and sinners swirl 'round and 'round and 'round midst wind and water under an omnipresent gypsy moon in these songs of seduction and sobriety.

What does it all mean? The poet doesn't say, but rather leaves it to us to ponder and find application in our own lives.

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Éditeur
Omnilex Media
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1648090028
ISBN 13 
9781648090028
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
92
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