Lorca y el mundo gay

by Ian Gibson

Ian Gibson resume la vida del autor en este polémico estudio en el que analiza al Federico García Lorca más íntimo, al poeta más humano y más sufrido. Asistiremos con él a su infancia y juventud en Granada, a un amor adolescente traumático, primicia absoluta del libro, a los «heroicos» años veinte en Madrid, a sus escarceos con Dalí y el escultor Emilio Aladrén, a su viaje a Nueva York y Cuba, a sus amistades íntimas de la etapa republicana, a sus continuos éxitos literarios… y a su terrible muerte.

576 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published June 8, 2010

About the author

Ian Gibson (born 21 April 1939) is an Irish author and Hispanist known for his biographies of Antonio Machado, Salvador Dalí, Henry Spencer Ashbee, and particularly his work on Federico García Lorca, for which he won several awards, including the 1989 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography. His work, La represión nacionalista de Granada en 1936 y la muerte de Federico García Lorca (The nationalistic repression of Granada in 1936 and the death of Federico García Lorca) was banned in Spain under Franco.

Born into a Methodist Dublin family, he was educated at Newtown School in Waterford and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin. He became a professor of Spanish literature at Belfast and London universities before moving to Spain. His first novel, Viento del Sur (Wind of the South, 2001), written in Spanish, examines class, religion, family life, and public schools in British society through the fictitious autobiography of a character named John Hill, an English linguist and academic. It won favourable reviews in Spain.

Gibson has also worked in television on projects centering around his scholarly work in Spanish history, having served as a historical consultant and even acting in one historical drama.

He was granted a Spanish passport in 1984.

Reviews

[Cris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Me ha gustado mucho (re)conocer a Lorca en este libro.