ROMANCERO GITANO / GYPSY BALLADS
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Autor:
FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA
Country:
Spain (ES)
Book Theme:
Poets representing your country poetry
Publisher:
AUSTRAL
Publishing Year:
2011
Poet and playwright considered one of the most important authors of 20th century Spanish literature. He studied at the University of Granada, where he met Manuel de Falla, a Spanish composer who influenced him greatly, transmitting to him a love of folklore and popular music.
In 1919, he moved to the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid, where he devoted himself passionately to music, drawing, theatre and poetry, forming part of the Generation of ’27
A profound personal crisis led Lorca to move to New York in 1929.
At the beginning of the summer of 1936 he returned to Granada where his family lived. When the Civil War broke out he was arrested. He was shot in the early hours of 19 August 1936, for obscure reasons, possibly his leftism, his lack of conventionality, or even his homosexuality
National Award for Children’s and Young People’s
Abstract
Romancero gitano is undoubtedly one of Federico García Lorca’s best-known works, consisting of 18 poems and published in 1928. It is considered one of the most important lyrical creations of the 20th century.
Lorca defines his work as the poem of Andalusia, with his romances he portrays the gypsy culture playing with symbols such as the night, death, the moon and the sky.
The main theme is the gypsy culture from a nostalgic point of view, from which Lorca shows his admiration for the strength, pride and resistance of this people who suffer in the face of oppression and rejection by the society of the time.
Each romance tells a different story, although they all share the same theme and stylistic resources, reminding us of coplas and flamenco singers. It is a hymn to freedom, equality and the dignity of the gypsy race.
