Cuatro piezas breves

by Federico García Lorca

Contiene El primitivo auto sentimental, Del amor, Sombras, y Jehová.

84 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1990

About the author

Born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain, June 5 1898; died near Granada, August 19 1936, García Lorca is one of Spain's most deeply appreciated and highly revered poets and dramatists. His murder by the Nationalists at the start of the Spanish civil war brought sudden international fame, accompanied by an excess of political rhetoric which led a later generation to question his merits; after the inevitable slump, his reputation has recovered (largely with a shift in interest to the less obvious works). He must now be bracketed with Machado as one of the two greatest poets Spain has produced in the 20th century, and he is certainly Spain's greatest dramatist since the Golden Age.

Reviews

[p33€3 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cuatro obras minúsculas que nos hablan de la injusticia vivida y de la incerteza de la muerte. Sombras, fantasmas, ángeles y animales temen el que vendrá después, temen al humano. Venganza en las palabras, hacia Dios por no darles lo prometido, hacia los humanos por cargarselo todo... Unos tiran los otros aflojan, nadie contento con la muerte arrasadora.

[Iván Grande López · Rating 5 out of 5]

El primitivo auto sentimental se ha convertido en mi nueva obra favorita de Lorca, pero Jehová también se gana su puesto en el podio.