THOUGHTS
"The worst of the feelings is the feeling of losing hope" - Federico García Lorca
Federico Garcia Lorca was born in Fuentevaqueros, Granada, on 5 June 1898.
He was a poet, musician, dramatist, essayist, painter, lecturer...
An artist above all things.
Between 1919 and 1928,
he lives in the students' residence of Madrid,
centre of cultural exchanges.
He becomes friend with the painter Salvador Dalí
and the filmmaker Luis Buñuel,
to whom he fascinated with his multiple talents.
He belonged to the so-called Generation of '27,
composed, among others, by Rafael Alberti, Luis Cernuda,
Damaso Alonso, Pedro Salinas, Vicente Alexandre,
with whom he shared friendship and artistic concerns.
His first artistic vocation was music.
From a very young age, he begins to play the guitar
and to study piano.
He composed songs with strong flamenco roots,
and he investigated the popular Andalucian book song, with Manuel de Falla.
Lorca's poetic work constitutes one of the peaks of the poetry of the Generation of '27
and of all the Spanish literature.
His poetry is the reflect of a tragic feeling of life.
The social and individual problems, like love frustration,
courage, melancholy, and passion.
Language is a fusion of the popular and the cult.
An example of this can be found in one of his best known poems:
"El Romancero Gitano" (The Gypsy Ballad).
He uses the Romance in its fantastic, lyric and dramatic variants.
As a dramatist, he deals with different genres,
although his reputation lies on the three popular tragedies:
Bodas de Sangre, Yerma and La Casa de Bernarda Alba.
He rules the university theatre "La Barraca",
with which he travelled all around Spain
representing plays of Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina and Calderon de la Barca.
After the military uprising of the Spanish Civil war,
he was executed by shooting in the dawn on 19 August 1936.
"The worst of the feelings is the feeling of losing hope" - Federico García Lorca