The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico Garcia Lorca Ascends to Hell
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- Synopsis
- In Carlos Rojasâ TMs imaginative novel, the Spanish poet Federico GarcÃa Lorca, murdered by Francoist rebels in August 1936, finds himself in an inferno that somehow resembles Breughelâ TMs Tower of Babel. He sits alone in a small theater in this private hell, viewing scenes from his own life performed over and over and over. Unexpectedly, two doppelgängers appear, one a middle-aged Lorca, the other an irascible octogenarian self, and the poet faces a nightmarish confusion of alternative identities and destinies.Carlos Rojas uses a fantastic premiseâ "GarcÃa Lorca in hellâ "to reexamine the poetâ TMs life and speculate on alternatives to his tragic end. Rojas creates with a surrealistâ TMs eye and a moral philosopherâ TMs mind. He conjures a profoundly original world, and in so doing earns a place among such international peers as Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, Philip Roth, J. M. Coetzee, and José Saramago.
- Copyright:
- 2013
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780300195286
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 04/19/13
- Copyrighted By:
- Edith Grossman, Carlos Rojas
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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