#frederico garcia lorca

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[dabiconcordia]

Dreamwalking Ballad

That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! those caves of ice! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! By Frederico Garcia Lorca

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Salvador Dalí with Federico García Lorca, Turó Park de la Guineueta, Barcelona, 1925

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[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

Postcard of Frederico Garcia Lorca by Antoni Tapiès, 1998

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[To find a kiss of yours], Federico García Lorca (translated by Sarah Arvio)

[dazzleluminosity]

For many years now, I have lived with the unwavering certainty and total lack of confirmation that Federico García Lorca was a trans woman. - "Un chien andalou" is a surrealist film made by Dalí and Bunuel, whose most coherent image features a person who shows up in femme clothes, gets chastised by a paternal figure, puts those clothes away in a box, and wears suits now. All three of them were besties in high school and signed letters to each other referencing the different regions of Spain they were from. Lorca was Andaluz. After they made the film, Lorca never spoke to either of them again. - Lorca was executed during the Spanish Civil War, and the circumstances are not really clear, but the general rumor is for being a homosexual. - Lorca writes a lot of different outsider experiences, which sometimes gets pointed to as a metaphor for the gay experience. - But Lorca's writing is actually just constantly about hetero relationships, and some of it is ... kind of homophobic? Or at least, put off by Walt Whitman's brand of gay. - Example of writing that sounds more like a trans experience than a homosexual one: Yerma is a play about a woman who is married but can't have children. The why is just not discussed. She just needs to evaluate what that means for her identity and reconcile with that longing. - Lorca's female characters are interesting/nuanced/complicated, while male ones tend to be The Abstract Concept of Masculinity (like the paragon matador in Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías) or just literally we-needed-a-dick-in-this-play, like the aptly named Pepe from the House of Bernarda Alba. - Literally you want to tell me a man wrote the House of Bernarda Alba.