The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico Garcia Lorca Ascends to Hell
Fiction & Literature, Literary
| Author: | Carlos Rojas | ISBN: | 9780300195286 |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press | Publication: | April 18, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Yale University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Carlos Rojas |
| ISBN: | 9780300195286 |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Publication: | April 18, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Yale University Press |
| Language: | English |
In Carlos Rojas’s imaginative novel, the Spanish poet Federico GarcÃa Lorca, murdered by Francoist rebels in August 1936, finds himself in an inferno that somehow resembles Breughel’s Tower of Babel. He sits alone in a small theater in this private hell, viewing scenes from his own life performed over and over and over. Unexpectedly, two doppelgängers appear, one a middle-aged Lorca, the other an irascible octogenarian self, and the poet faces a nightmarish confusion of alternative identities and destinies.
Carlos Rojas uses a fantastic premise—GarcÃa Lorca in hell—to reexamine the poet’s life and speculate on alternatives to his tragic end. Rojas creates with a surrealist’s eye and a moral philosopher’s mind. He conjures a profoundly original world, and in so doing earns a place among such international peers as Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, Philip Roth, J. M. Coetzee, and José Saramago.
In Carlos Rojas’s imaginative novel, the Spanish poet Federico GarcÃa Lorca, murdered by Francoist rebels in August 1936, finds himself in an inferno that somehow resembles Breughel’s Tower of Babel. He sits alone in a small theater in this private hell, viewing scenes from his own life performed over and over and over. Unexpectedly, two doppelgängers appear, one a middle-aged Lorca, the other an irascible octogenarian self, and the poet faces a nightmarish confusion of alternative identities and destinies.
Carlos Rojas uses a fantastic premise—GarcÃa Lorca in hell—to reexamine the poet’s life and speculate on alternatives to his tragic end. Rojas creates with a surrealist’s eye and a moral philosopher’s mind. He conjures a profoundly original world, and in so doing earns a place among such international peers as Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, Philip Roth, J. M. Coetzee, and José Saramago.
