As soon as I begin, I must admit that my perspective on Federico Garcia Lorca it is somewhat skewed. Because my approach to poetry has always been unsuccessful (lyrical limitations of one), so I can only comment on this Andalusian author and universal genius from his prosaic side, the one who linked him to the theater with works as universal as his verses. Something similar happened to me at the time when I posted about Becker. In both cases I stick with the purely narrative side.
The point is that it cannot be denied that when listening to a poem by Lorca recited with deep passion, such as "The catch and death" with that litany around five in the afternoon, something is moved even in the most profane like me . But to abound in the reading of poems ends up being ambrosia for the muzzle of a donkey, like that of a servant.
So if you have come this far know that you are going to find one selection of works by Lorca in that performance typical of dramaturgy, where elegance, melancholy and a critical revisionism of Spanish manners are giving way through the scenes of vibrant plots about love and death.
All forewarned, and without delving into the painful vital circumstances that in addition to the genius erected the myth and that unfortunately sentenced to death the person and what could be an even more glorious work, let's go there then with my selection ...
Top 3 recommended books by Federico García Lorca
La casa de Bernarda Alba
If labels are really useful for anything, the renowned generation of '27 brought together an avant-garde spirit that was emerging in the group of many other authors such as Lorca.
The seed of modernity invaded all those authors who, grouped by academic needs for the study of Literature, simply proposed a formal regeneration of language with that natural progressiveness of the changes of time.
This work is both continuous and essentially groundbreaking, because the apparent tragedy of Bernarda, mourning from the outside in her widowhood until the obligatory black man ends up occupying her from that externally imposed ostentation to the depths of her soul. Everything that surrounds Bernarda must adhere to that prolonged mourning.
And yet, the daughters find ways to avoid the presence of a mother who has become the exterminator of all hope. The dramatic ending reveals the cruel roots of the morality imposed despite everything experienced.
Bodas de sangre
The most lyrical theatrical work by a Lorca moved by the argument that ended up permeating the scenography with verses of love and heartbreak, melancholy and frustration of the soul at the impossibility of a love that was no longer romantic but vitiated by moral habits and repudiations.
The scenes advance loaded with those symbols typical of some verses that sing to tears, to darkness and also to invincible passion and blood boiling in spurts.
Full of the aroma of southern passions, this work addresses the madness of the impossible in the eyes of others. Virtually anonymous characters become symbols that merge with the moon or death, a kind of theatrical fable from the most mundane tragedy of impossible love.
yerma
The cycle of life was a maxim that still supports religious marital unions today. But the present has nothing to do with those days when an infertile womb became the abyss of an insurmountable emptiness for a woman, the symbol of an anticipated end.
Something like the denial of God to women, Eve's new guilt, the failure to fulfill her fundamental role. Only Yerma knows the origin of her tragic destiny. John is not the man capable of producing the germ of life in his womb.
Tragedy then approaches the man, like a sword of Damocles that will invariably end up taking him before him... Halfway between the tragedy of a motherhood that does not arrive and the feeling that everything is born from a retrograde and blaming morality, the Scenes follow one another with the notion of madness appearing with increasing intensity.
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