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Finding Duende: Duende: Play and Theory Imagination, Inspiration, Evasion

Finding Duende: Duende: Play and Theory Imagination, Inspiration, Evasion

García Lorca, Federico
León, José Javier
Maurer, Christopher

Paperback

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

Publisher Price: $28.00

ISBN10: 1736189379
ISBN13: 9781736189375
Publisher: Swan Isle Press
Published: Jan 24 2024
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.04
Language: Spanish
A new translation of Federico García Lorca's captivating lecture on duende.

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.

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