Drama

Bodas de sangre (Blood Wedding)

Name: Bodas de sangre (Blood Wedding)
Author: Federico Garcia Lorca
ISBN: 9780719007644

by Federico Garcia Lorca, Herbert Ramsden

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Overview

Federico García Lorca (Fuente Vaqueros, provincia de Granada, 5 de junio de 1898entre Víznar y Alfacar, 18 de agosto de 1936). España.

Nació en el municipio de Fuente Vaqueros, Granada (España), en el seno de una familia de posición económica desahogada, el 5 de junio de 1898 y fue bautizado con el nombre de Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca;su padre fue don Federico García Rodríguez, un hacendado, y su madre, doña Vicenta Lorca, maestra de escuela que fomentó el gusto literario a su hijo.

Synopsis

Bodas de sangre is arguably the best-known work by the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers. A passionate story of family feud and tragic elopement is played out in the setting of a poor country village, building up to a dramatic ending full of the intensely poetic symbolism characteristic of Lorca.

About the Author, Federico Garcia Lorca

Federico Garcia Lorca studied in New York City from 1929-1930. In 1936, at the outset of the Spanish Civil War, he was shot to death by anti-Republican rebels in Franco's army, and his books were banned and destroyed.

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