The ingenious gentleman and poet Federico Garcia Lorca ascends to hell / Carlos Rojas ; translated by Edith Grossman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rojas, Carlos, 1928-

Contributor:

Grossman, Edith, 1936-

Series:

The Margellos World Republic of Letters

Standardized Title:

Ingenioso hidalgo y poeta Federico Garcia Lorca asciende a los infiernos. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936--Fiction.

García Lorca, Federico.

Spanish literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Carlos Rojas's imaginative novel, the Spanish poet Federico García 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-García 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 García Márquez, Philip Roth, J. M. Coetzee, and José Saramago.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE

THE SPIRAL

THE ARREST

DESTINY

THE TRIAL

Notes:

"A Margellos World Republic of Letters book."

ISBN:

9781299463608

1299463606

9780300195286

0300195281

OCLC:

846999909