The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico García Lorca Ascends to Hell by Edith Grossman, Carlos Rojas

The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico García Lorca Ascends to Hell

Edith Grossman, Carlos Rojas

224 pages first pub 1980 (editions)

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In Carlos Rojas’s imaginative novel, the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, murdered by Francoist rebels in August 1936, finds himself in an inferno that somehow resembles Breughel’s Tower of Babel. He sits alone in a small theater in this privat...

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