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The Assassination of Federico Garcia Lorca
The Assassination of Federico Garcia Lorca Author:Ian Gibson At dawn on August 19, 1936, Spaniards murdered the man who most profoundly embodied the poetic spirit of their country. Federico Garcia Lorca was the victim of the passions that arose in Spain as the Church, the military, and the bourgeoisie embarked on their reckless and brutal repression of "undesirables". Lorca was not a political m... more »an; he embraced Spain -- from its struggling leftist movement to its most conservative traditions -- with a love that transcended politics. His "crime" was his antipathy to pomposity, conformity, and intolerance.
For years the Spanish government suppressed the truth about Lorca's death. In this moving re-creation of the assassination, Ian Gibson redresses the wrong. Based on information only recently made available, here is a brilliant illumination not only of the death of a great poet, but of the atmosphere of Civil War Spain that allowed it to happen.« less