Lorca After Life

By Noël Valis

A reflection on Federico Garc?a Lorca's life, his haunting death, and the fame that reinvigorated the marvelous in the modern world

"A galaxy of critical insights into the cultural shock waves circling and crisscrossing Lorca's execution and his unknown resting place, there is not a single book on Lorca like this one."--Andr?s Zamora, Vanderbilt University

There is something fundamentally unfinished about the life and work of Federico Garc?a Lorca (1898-1936), and not simply because his life ended abruptly. No?l Valis reveals how this quality gives shape to the ways in which he has been continuously reimagined since his death. Lorca's execution at the start of the Spanish Civil War was not only horrific but transformative, setting in motion many of the poet's afterlives. He is intimately tied to both an individual and a collective identity, as the people's poet, a gay icon, and fabled member of a dead poets' society. The specter of his violent death continues to haunt everything connected to Lorca, fueling the desire to fill in the gaps in the poet's biography.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300257864
• ISBN13: 9780300257861
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.6"