Автор:Federico Garcia Lorca Год: 1983 Издание:New Directions Страниц: 178 ISBN: 9780811208734 This first English-language edition of Federico Garcia Lorca's Selected Letters presents an intimate autobiographical record of the Spanish poet from the age of twenty to a month before his death at the hands of Franco's forces in 1936. "I was born for my friends," Lorca wrote to Melchor Fernandez Almagro in 1926, and these letters reveal the personality his friends found so magical. ("A happiness, a brilliance . . ." Pablo Neruda called him.) Lorca was by turns sympathetic, generous, demanding, whimsical, insecure, and always lyrical. Over the nineteen years covered in this selection, he maintained a correspondence with his closest friends, particularly his childhood companion Melchor Fernandez Almagro and his fellow poet Jorge Guillen, and wrote in concentrated bursts to many others. He could be playful with Salvador DaH's younger sister Ana Maria; deferential to composer Manuel de Falla; lively and descriptive with his family; and exasperating to Barcelona critic Sebastian...
