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Gypsy Ballads
Federico García Lorca
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Description for Gypsy Ballads
Hardcover. Gypsy Ballads is the best-known book of poems by the greatest Spanish literary figure of the 20th century. This new bilingual edition brings Lorca's verse both to the general reader and the student, illuminated by photos and illustrations of and by Lorca, his own reflections on the poem and introductory notes by leading Lorca scholars. Editor(s): Duran, Jane; Garcia Lorca, Gloria. Num Pages: 218 pages, ports. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 143 x 23. Weight in Grams: 396.
Translated by Gloria Garcia Lorca, the writer's niece, and Jane Duran, the family friend who became a celebrated poet, Gypsy Ballads is the most authentic version of Romancero Gitano imaginable. In their new translation Jane Duran and Gloria Garcia Lorca have been faithful to Lorca's work, searching out original meanings, avoiding overt interpretations, reproducing metaphors, so as to bring to an English-speaking reader the pure power of Lorca's poetry. What is revealed is a kaleidoscope of sensory images, characters and stories. Lorca described his most popular collection as 'the poem of Andalusia ...A book that hardly expresses visible Andalusia at ... Read more
Translated by Gloria Garcia Lorca, the writer's niece, and Jane Duran, the family friend who became a celebrated poet, Gypsy Ballads is the most authentic version of Romancero Gitano imaginable. In their new translation Jane Duran and Gloria Garcia Lorca have been faithful to Lorca's work, searching out original meanings, avoiding overt interpretations, reproducing metaphors, so as to bring to an English-speaking reader the pure power of Lorca's poetry. What is revealed is a kaleidoscope of sensory images, characters and stories. Lorca described his most popular collection as 'the poem of Andalusia ...A book that hardly expresses visible Andalusia at ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Enitharmon Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
218
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
218
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907587085
SKU
V9781907587085
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99-30
About Federico García Lorca
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) is one of the most popular of modern European poets and playwrights. His poems and plays about creation, desire and death have been translated into dozens of languages and transformed into song, ballet, opera and painting. Fascinated by the folk music of his native Spain, Lorca wrote two books inspired by gypsy rhythms: Poem of the ... Read more
Reviews for Gypsy Ballads
'competitive with the best English versions already in circulation; this is certainly a book which all with an interest in Lorca will want to get hold of. ...This is an illuminating, exciting and informative book; Enitharmon (and the contributors) are to be warmly congratulated on their Gypsy Ballads.' Acumen