Zigeunerromanzen: Primer romancero gitano 1924-1927 (Bibliothek Suhrkamp)

Federico García Lorca

ISBN 10: 3518223569 / ISBN 13: 9783518223567

Published by Suhrkamp, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Zigeunerromanzen: Primer romancero gitano 1924-1927 (Bibliothek Suhrkamp)
• Publisher: Suhrkamp
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3518223569
• ISBN 13: 9783518223567
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: as new

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Synopsis

In 1928, when in Europe the signs stood on surrealism, a book appeared in Spain that belongs to the handful of lyrical mass successes that literary history knows: García Lorca's gypsy romances, a bestseller in the order of Heine's book of songs or Baudelaire's flowers of evil. With this narrow volume, playing on the archaic emotional piano of romance in a way that seemed breathtakingly new to contemporaries, the Spaniard achieved what rarely succeeds and is never forgiven: being avant-gardist and popular star at the same time.
The avant-gardens have long since set verdigris themselves and Lorca's romances have fallen home to the school book. With the appearance of the new translation of Martin von Koppenfels ( poet in New York , 2000), now the opportunity has come to take an unbiased look at this amazingly long-lived cult book of once to find out what its secret consists in. What is behind this Andalusian picture sheet with its melancholic cattle thieves and transsexual archangels, its gypsy madonns and moon-addicted planets, its martyrs and pumpkin kerne-chewing street children? One will discover that these romances are fragile formations, rope dances from the ballad to the puppet theatre, from black romance to the country of Dada. Lorca juggles with the styles: he masters the oily pathos of the morite singer as well as the shrill or ironic punchline. And the basis of this lyric is a steady, silent hysteria of the images, which suggests from whom Buñuel, Saura or Almodóvar have learned so many their arts.