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Born in Fuente Vaqueros close to Granada in 1898, Federico Garcia Lorca was the son of a prosperous farmer along with a school teacher mother. It was from Lorca's mother that he took most influence in early life - she taught him to play music and sing - expertise that would lay the foundations for the poet's sense of rhythm and timing. In 1909 the family members moved into Grenada where he would later paisajes in artistic circles and wield a great influence amongst his peers. He first studied law at Grenada before moving to university in Madrid to the famous "Residencia de estudiantes" in 1919.
One year earlier, Lorca had his first collections of poems published, entitled "Impresiones y paisajes". It enjoyed significant acclaim devoid of considerably commercial good results. Even so, now in Madrid, Lorca was to make close friends having a terrific numerous influential young Spanish artists, two from the most notable becoming Salvadore Dalí who wants little introduction, and Luis Buñel, the groundbreaking film maker, who Lorca was to turn out to be great buddies with. 1919 also saw Lorca get his 1st break on the stage; he wrote and staged his very first play: "El Melefico de la Mariposa". It didn't go also nicely and was laughed off the stage immediately after four shows; the incident was to sour Lorca's feelings towards the theatre going public forever.
Through the twenties, Lorca improved as a poet and playwright and became increasingly involved in the "avant garde" movement becoming a important member of "generation of 27", a group of poets and artists keen to employ the most recent strategies and theories to their medium. In this period he published a further three anthologies of poetry like, in all probability his most well-known work, "Romancero Gitano" in 1928. His second play, "Mariana Pineda" had also opened to good acclaim in 1927.
Behind his public achievement Lorca was struggling to help keep his private life together and skilled extreme bouts of depression in the course of this period. His friendship with Buñel and Dali was becoming strained and his attempts to hide his homosexuality from his household were becoming increasingly thin-veiled. During this period his turbulent and frequently one-sided relationship with sculptor Emilio Alandrén was also collapsing, adding to Lorca's torments.
In 1930, Lorca left Spain for the USA so as to study English at Columbia University. Lorca was somewhat let down by his first knowledge of a modern day democracy, America's rampant commercialism and discrimination of minority groups provided Lorca with all the fuel to produce some of his most challenging work. His poetry anthology "Poeta en Nueva York" and his play "El Publico" had been both penned while Lorca was within the USA; indeed, "El Publico" wasn't to see the light of day till the 1970's resulting from the repression of his work beneath Franco's paisajes hermosos.
Garcia Lorca's return to Spain in 1931 coincided together with the fall from the Prima Rivera dictatorship and also the reestablishment with the Spanish republic. Lorca was asked to head-up a government sponsored theatre business, aimed at bringing traditional theatre to rural Spain. Throughout this period Lorca designed his celebrated "rural trilogy" of plays: "Bodas de Sangre", "Yerma" and "La Casa de Bernada Alba".
The outbreak with the Civil War in 1936 was to mean an untimely end for Garcia Lorca. Ultimately an independent and free-thinking artist, the particular causes for his murder nonetheless remain something of a mystery. We do understand that he left for Granada in 1936 where he was arrested and later murdered by Falangists (who would later go on to commit several of the greatest atrocities on the war) and thrown into an unmarked grave in or about Viznar, near Granada. Andalusia was the main stronghold in the nationalist motion and some maintain that when Lorca set out to Granada, it was over most likely he knew he'd in no way return alive, particularly as his brother in law was the Socialist mayor of Grenada at the time.
Lorca was to come to be certainly one of the good martyrs on the Civil War and in many respects epitomised the free-thinking opposition to Franco's regime. Franco himself would not need to hear mention with the author or the circumstances of his death so Lorca's complete oeuvre hasn't seriously been in print for a great deal more than 25 years.
His undoubted talents place him within the very same bracket as Cervantes and he has gone on to become Spain's most influential literary figure on the 20th century despite his untimely and, ultimately premature, death at the age of 38.
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