Research Catalog
Finding duende : Duende, play and theory ; Imagination, inspiration, evasion
- Title
- Finding duende : Duende, play and theory ; Imagination, inspiration, evasion / Federico García Lorca ; edited by José Javier León & Christopher Maurer ; translated by Christopher Maurer.
- Author
- García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936
- Publication
- Chicago : Swan Isle Press, [2023]
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 117 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm
- Summary
- "For years, Federico García Lorca's lecture on duende has been a source of insight for writers and performers, including Ted Hughes, Nick Cave, Patti Smith, and Amanda Gorman. Duende: Play and Theory not only provides a path into Lorca's poetics and the arts of Spain; it is one of the strangest, most compelling accounts of inspiration ever offered by a poet. Contrasting the demon called duende with the Angel and the Muse, Lorca describes a mysterious telluric, diabolical current, an irreducible "it," that can draw the best from both performer and audience. This new translation by Christopher Maurer, based on a thoroughly revised edition of the Spanish original of 1933, also included in this volume, offers a more accurate and fully annotated version of the lecture, with an introduction by eminent philologist José Javier León. Drawing on a deep knowledge of flamenco, and correcting decades of discussion about duende and its supposed origins in Spanish folklore and popular speech, León shows to what extent the concept of duende - understood as the imp of artistic inspiration - was the playful, yet deadly serious, invention of Lorca himself. Lorca's bravura performance of duende is foreshadowed here with a bilingual version - the most complete ever - of his other major text on inspiration, "Imagination, Inspiration, Evasion," in which he calls for greater freedom in poetry as if searching for duende and its "constant baptism of newly created things.""--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- lectures.
- Lectures.
- Conférences.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language (note)
- Text in English and Spanish.
- Contents
- Finding duende / Christopher Maurer -- Mapping the duende / José Javier León -- Duende: play and theory = Juego y teoría del duende / Federico García Lorca -- Imagination, inspiration, evasion = Imaginación, inspiración, evasión / Federico García Lorca.
- ISBN
- 9781736189375
- 1736189379
- LCCN
- 2023036465
- OCLC
- YBP 2023036465
- Author
- García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936, author.
- Title
- Finding duende : Duende, play and theory ; Imagination, inspiration, evasion / Federico García Lorca ; edited by José Javier León & Christopher Maurer ; translated by Christopher Maurer.
- Publisher
- Chicago : Swan Isle Press, [2023]
- Edition
- Bilingual edition.First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language
- Text in English and Spanish.
- Added Author
- León, José Javier, 1964- editor.Maurer, Christopher, editor, translator.Container of: García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936. Juego y teoría del duende.Container of: García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936. Juego y teoría del duende. English.Container of: García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936. Imaginación, inspiración, evasión.Container of: García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936. Imaginación, inspiración, evasión. English.