Volume 46, Number 17 · November 4, 1999
The Ballad of Federico García Lorca
By David Gilmour
Lorca: A Dream of Life
by Leslie Stainton
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 579 pp., $35.00
An acquaintance in Buenos Aires described Federico García Lorca in 1933 as a 'conceited fool, a fat and petulant little charlatan.' In the course of an afternoon's tour of the city, Lorca had been pedantic, vain, and egotistical, giving his companion the impression that 'Spanish poetry began and ended with him.' The Spanish theater had similar origins and termination, while his unfinished play, Yerma, was heralded by its creator as 'the consummation of Greek tragedy.'
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