Volume 20, Number 19 · November 29, 1973
Who Killed Lorca
By V.S. Pritchett
The Death of Lorca
by Ian Gibson
J. Philip O'Hara, 260 pp., $10.00
Thirty-seven years after the killing of the poet Federico Garcia Lorca, whose fame had already spread far beyond Spain at the time of his death, it is still impossible to be absolutely certain of the accomplices in the crime and the exact motives for it. Even now, when Lorca's name is rehabilitated in Spain—owing to foreign opinion—and the act has been officially deplored because of the damage it did (and still does) to the image of Franco's 'National Cause,' the blame is shifted from one group to another, without naming names. People who might have told much have died; some who could tell have grown old, memories have become vague or evasive. In Granada people waver between caution and fantasy. As in southern Ireland after the civil war of the Twenties, among those once close to the crimes committed there are embarrassment, the wish to forget, generalized talk of personal jealousies and 'uncontrollable elements' that 'come to the surface' in such times.
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