No Me Encontraron / They Didn't Find Me [Spanish]

By Ian Gibson

Por qu el poeta m s internacional de nuestra lengua yace a n en una fosa desconocida? C mo es posible que, como rezan sus anticipatorios versos, casi un siglo despu s Lorca susurre "no me encontraron"?

En el 90 aniversario de su muerte, el experto hispanista Ian Gibson publica esta cr nica minuciosa que relata su personal visi n sobre las causas, intereses y desintereses que han llevado a este silencio.

Espa a todav a mantiene abandonadas en cunetas y fosas comunes a unas 115.000 v ctimas del longevo y brutal r gimen dictatorial de Francisco Franco. El m s amado y llorado de estos desaparecidos es Federico Garc a Lorca, "paseado" en agosto de 1936 a las afueras de Granada a los 38 a os. Parece inimaginable que no sepamos a n, casi un siglo despu s, d nde yacen sus restos mortales.

Este libro es una cr nica de ese olvido. En el a o 2010, Ian Gibson public el diario que escribi , obsesivamente, durante la primera y fallida b squeda oficial del poeta el a o anterior, en el municipio granadino de Alfacar. La primera parte reproduce ntegramente aquel texto desolador.

La segunda, in dita, relata lo ocurrido alrededor de la investigaci n durante los tres lustros siguientes. El hecho de que Granada, expresada por Garc a Lorca con m s hondura que por ning n escritor nunca, siga sin revelar su ltimo paradero es vergonzoso. Siguen desoyendo la petici n formulada en su eleg a por Antonio Machado, otro andaluz genial, a los pocos d as del magnicidio:

Labrad, amigos,
de piedra y sue o, en la Alhambra,
un t mulo al poeta,
sobre una fuente donde llore el agua,
y eternamente diga:
el crimen fue en Granada, en su Granada

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Why does the most international poet in Spanish language still lie in an unmarked grave? How is it possible that, as his prophetic verses suggest, Lorca whispers "they didn't find me" almost a century later?

On the 90th anniversary of his death, expert Hispanist Ian Gibson publishes this meticulous chronicle that recounts his personal vision of the causes, interests, and disinterests that have led to this silence.

Spain still keeps some 115,000 victims of Francisco Franco's long and brutal dictatorial regime abandoned in ditches and mass graves. The most beloved and mourned of those who disappeared is Federico Garc a Lorca, "taken for a walk" in August 1936 on the outskirts of Granada at the age of 38. It seems unimaginable that, nearly a century later, we still do not know where his remains lie.

This book is a chronicle of that oblivion. In 2010, Ian Gibson published the diary he obsessively wrote during the first and failed official search for the poet in the Granada municipality of Alfacar the previous year. The first part reproduces that heart-wrenching text in its entirety.

The second, previously unpublished, recounts what transpired around the investigation during the following fifteen years. The fact that Granada, expressed by Garc a Lorca with more depth than by any writer ever, still refuses to reveal his final resting place is shameful. They continue to ignore the request made in his elegy by Antonio Machado, another brilliant Andalusian, a few days after the assassination:

Carve, friends,
out of stone and dreams, in the Alhambra,
a tomb for the poet,
over a fountain where the water weeps,
and eternally says:
the crime was in Granada, in his Granada

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 8403526636
• ISBN13: 9788403526631
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Aguilar
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.