Garcia Lorca Federico - Finding Duende Duende: Play And Theory | Imagination Inspiration Evasion - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A new translation of Federico Garc a Lorca's captivating lecture on duende. For years Federico Garc a Lorca's lecture on duende has been a source of insight for writers and performers including Ted Hughes Nick Cave Patti Smith and Amanda Gorman. Duende: Play and Theory not only provides a path into Lorca's poetics and the arts of Spain; it is one of the strangest most compelling accounts of inspiration ever offered by a poet. Contrasting the demon called duende with the Angel and the Muse Lorca describes a mysterious telluric diabolical current an irreducible it that can draw the best from both performer and audience. This new translation by Christopher Maurer based on a thoroughly revised edition of the Spanish original of 1933, also included in this volume offers a more accurate and fully annotated version of the lecture with an introduction by eminent philologist Jos Javier Le n. Drawing on a deep knowledge of flamenco and correcting decades of discussion about duende and its supposed origins in Spanish folklore and popular speech Le n shows to what extent the concept of duende understood as the imp of artistic inspiration was the playful yet deadly serious invention of Lorca himself. Lorca's bravura performance of duende is foreshadowed here with a bilingual version the most complete ever of his other major text on inspiration Imagination Inspiration Evasion in which he calls for greater freedom in poetry as if searching for duende and its constant baptism of newly created things.
Title: Finding Duende Duende: Play And Theory | Imagination Inspiration Evasion
Author(s): Garcia Lorca Federico, Christopher Maurer
Publisher: Swan Isle Press
Barcode: 9781736189375
Pages: 128 Pages, 10 Color Plates
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/24/2024
Category: Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets