Federico García Lorca Presentation
Federico García Lorca Presentation
Federico García Lorca Presentation
GARCÍA LORCA
BY
OSCAR CAMACHO / GERRAD GRACIA / CIVIA HERNANDEZ
BIRTH
• Born on June 5th 1898
From left to right: Louis Eaton-Daniel, Juan Centeno, Federico García Lorca, Emilio Prados y José
(Pepín) Bello en una habitación de la Residencia, 1924. FUNDACIÓN FEDERICO GARCÍA
LORCA
CONT’
• In 1919, García joined the 'Residencia
de estudiantes', a cultural centre in
Madrid. It was here that he got
acquainted to future filmmaker, Luis
Buñuel, artist Salvador Dalí, dramatist
Eduardo Marquina, and poet Juan
Ramón Jiménez.
GENERATION OF ’27
In Madrid he joined a group of avant-garde artists that included Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel. The group,
collectively known as the “Generation of ’27,” introduced Lorca to Surrealism, a movement that would greatly
influence his writing.
POETRY
Impresiones Y Paisajes (1918) Un Poeta en Nuneva York (1930) Romancero Gitano (1928)
SYMBOLS
• The moon: it's the most common symbol in Lorca's
works. It often means death, but it can also signify
erotism, fertility, sterility or beauty.
• Water: running water means life, vitality, but still water
means death.
• Blood: represents life, but spilled blood means death. It
also symbolizes fertility and sex.
• The horse (and its rider): quite frequent in Lorca's
texts, it's related to death, life and men's erotism.
• Grasses: signify death.
• Metals: their dominant meaning is death. Metals
always appear as weapons, which always bring tragedy.
THEMES
• Love • Infidelity
• Fertility • El que diran
• Frustration • Life and Death
FIRST PLAY
Lorca's play deals with an injured butterfly,
temporarily stranded amongst other insects, that
flies away despite a cockroach's love for her.
THREE RURAL
TRAGEDIES
La Casa de Bernarda Alba (1936)
Yerma (1934)
Bodas de Sangre (1932)
OTHER PLAYS
• The Puppet Play of Don
Cristóbal
• The Shoemaker's
Prodigious Wife
• Doña Rosita the Spinster:
• Play Without a Title
THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
• 1930s the Economic depression in Spain was at a point that Primo de Rivera was unable to
restore, because of this, the army withdrew its support for him and he was forced to resign.
• The elections in Spain April 1931, the “Republicans” won. Alfonso XIII left the throne and
the monarchy was abolished. However, the new government faced many problems.
• War breaks out with General Francisco Franco who had been viewed as politically
dangerous and had been sent to the Canary Islands, however, he took control of Spanish
Morocco in 1936, then moved on to mainland Spain, determined to throw the Republicans
out of government. Franco was a fascist and was able to get support from Nazi Germany and
Fascist Italy, as well as from neighboring Portugal.
• Those led by Franco were known as “Nationalists.” The Republicans got help from the
Soviet Union, but this caused division among them, since some were not communist. The
Republicans also had support from international volunteers, but not officially. Franco’s
rebellion was only partially successful, leading to bloody fighting over control over Spain.
PERSECUTION
• Despite the threat of a growing fascist movement in his country,
Lorca refused to hide his leftist political views, or his
homosexuality, while continuing his rise as a writer.
• In interviews, meanwhile, García Lorca had begun to give clear
vent to his anti-fascism. He also made enemies among his home-
town’s middle class, whom he insulted in one national newspaper
as “the worst…in Spain today”. Many of this middle class had
sided with the rebels and were keen to flush out any “reds” that
sympathized, or seemed to sympathize, with the Republic. Lorca
was inevitably counted among their ranks. His homosexuality
only served to intensify this hatred.
• When the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, García Lorca left
Madrid for Granada. Presumably Lorca hoped that his brother-in-
law, who was the socialist mayor of Granada, would be able to
protect him, but the move would ultimately prove to be an unwise
decision.
ASSASSINATION
In late summer both Garcia Lorca and his brother-in-
law were captured by the Nationalist army. Both
were summarily executed three days later by
Falange militia on August 19, 1936 and thrown into
an unmarked grave in or around Víznar and Alfacar,
near Granada. The location of the crime is well-
known, but his body has never been found. To this
day there is till a large controversy about the details
and reasons for his execution, but any possible
historical documentation remains unpublished.
POST MORTEM
For years after Franco’s victory in 1939, open discussion in
Spain about García Lorca’s life, sexuality and death did not
take place. Until the dictator’s death in 1975, only redacted
versions of his works were available and Ian Gibson’s
account of the poet’s murder was prohibited. Sonnets
addressed to a lover did not appear until 1983. By then,
however, in Spain as elsewhere, critical appreciation of
García Lorca’s reputation as a writer of high originality had
begun to supersede concerns over his sexuality.
WORKS CITED
• https://www.classicspanishbooks.com/20th-cent-garcia-lorca-works.html
• https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&
httpsredir=1&article=4689&context=etd
• http://
www.rtve.es/noticias/20170615/lorca-se-despide-su-amada-residencia-estudiantes/1565182.sht
ml
• https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/3063743/0/lorca-exposicion-una-habitacion-propia-residenci
a-estudiantes
/
• https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/federico-garcia-lorca-4775.php
Note: This service is not intended for secure transactions such as banking, social media, email, or purchasing. Use at your own risk. We assume no liability whatsoever for broken pages.
Alternative Proxies: