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Federico García
Lorca Spanish (1898-1936)
Poet, playwright
Famous for deep symbolism, and for his intimacy with regional and folk
culture of
Draws
on the sensibility of “Flamenco” – i.e. passion, improvisation, “soul” or in
Spanish duende
Cultural
issues of church, nation, male/female roles, tradition vs. modernity (including
the bullfight etc.) all loom large.
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If "Mars Needs Terrorists" was an indeterminate text that killed the author and turned things over to the reader--"Blood Wedding" is much more determinate. Yet in using powerful, idiosyncratic symbols (not conventional symbols), García Lorca also creates a significant space for readers to create meanings.
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