Memoria
, 169–71, and “Gitanos y civiles. Los guardias asesinados en Ugíjar. Como se realizó el crímen,”
El Sol
(Madrid), November 5, 1919, 1.
“Molière was right”:
Alardo Prats, “Los artistas en el ambiente de nuestro tiempo,”
El Sol
(Madrid), December 15, 1934, in OC, III, 546.
“How can that be?”:
author interview with José Antonio Rubio Sacristán.
“The Gypsies are a theme”:
EC, 414, trans. FGL,
Selected Letters
, 94.
“I am not a Gypsy”:
Giménez Caballero.
“glory and end,” “washed up,” “passé,” and “pure … poet”:
Martínez Nadal,
Cuatro lecciones
, 32–33. On FGL’s refusal to attend Alberti’s reading, see Pedro Salinas / Jorge Guillén, 94.
“a vision of trees”:
EC, 571.
“I am
tormented”:
EC
, 579.
“beset
by love”:
EC
, 581.
“fast and furiously”:
EC
, 590.
“sheer willpower,” “I’m going through … should never see it,” “reasons of discipline,” and “eroticism”:
EC
, 582.
“I am a slave”:
Quoted in Jack J. Spector,
Delacroix: The Death of Sardanapalus
, in the series Art in Context, ed. John Fleming and Hugh Honour (London: Allen Lane, 1974), 61–91.
“Ode … Sesostris and Sardanapalus”:
OC, I, 744–47; Miguel García-Posada, introduction to FGL,
Oda y burla;
Paul Verlaine,
Selected Poems
, trans. C. F. Mclntyre (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1948), 3.
“full of humor”:
EC
, 579.
“the exact opposite”:
EC
, 590.
“I’m going through”:
EC
, 576.
“You’ll always be”:
EC
, 586.
“Don’t get involved … Don’t stop writing”:
EC
, 575.
“They’ll bring me,” “I love you,” and “As for E”:
Jorge Zalamea to FGL, AFFGL, cited in
G, I
, 558.
“I too have had”:
EC, 587.
“I want to be”:
EC, 589.
“internal conflicts … all of it is shit”:
Martínez Nadal,
Federico García Lorca. Mi penúltimo libro
, 219.
“unconscious erotic inspiration”:
G, I
, 571.
Dalí criticizes
Gypsy Ballads”:
Salvador Dalí escribe a Federico García Lorca
, 88–94, translated in Gibson, et. al.,
Salvador Dalí: The Early Years
, 36–38.
Dali’s “Reality and Surreality”:
Jaime Brihuega,
Manifiestos, proclamas, panfletos y textos doctrinales. Las vanguardias artísticas en España
. 1910–1931 (Madrid: Ediciones, 1979), 295–302.
13. Rain from the Stars: 1928–29
“intelligence, grace, and acuity”:
Martínez Nadal,
Federico García Lorca. Mi penúltimo libro
, 52.
“sharp and arbitrary letter” and “It died”:
EC, 585.
“All day long,” “vein-opening poetry,” and “which gives me life”:
EC, 587.
“my new
spiritualistic
manner”:
EC, 588.
“another ism”:
Sebastian Gasch, “Superrealismo,” in Jaime Brihuega,
Manifiestos, proclamas, panfletos y textos doctrinales. Las vanguardias artísticas en España
. 1910–1931 (Madrid: Ediciones, 1979), 304.
FGL delivers “Imagination, Inspiration, Escape”:
Mario Hernández, “De la correspondencia epistolar lorquiana,” unpublished typescript, 23; Laffranque,
Les Idées Esthétiques
, 171; Maurer, introduction to FGL,
Poet in New York
, xvi-xvii. All passages from this lecture are taken from OC, III, 98–112.
“If you ask me why I wrote”:
OC, III, 105–8.
“a complete aesthetic theory”:
“Vida cultural. El Ateneo de Granada inaugura el curso 1938–1929: Conferencia de Federico García Lorca,”
Defensor de Granada
, October 12, 1928.
gallo
Night:
“Gallismo,”
Defensor de Granada
, September 21, 1928; “En el Ateneo-Noche de ‘Gallo,’”
Defensor de Granada
, October 28, 1928, 1; Christopher Maurer, “Adios a este
gallo,”
in
gallo. revista de granada
. 1928, facsimile ed. (Granada: Comares, 1988), xxx-xxii; EC, 595. On the proposed third issue of
gallo
see correspondence from Joaquín Amigo to FGL, AFFGL, and EC, 579.
“Sketch of the New Painting”:
OC, III, 88–97; Christopher Maurer, introduction to C, I, 20; Laffranque,
Les Idées Esthétiques
, 116; María Clementa Millán, “Líneas de una biografía,” in FGL,
Dibujos;
and Mario Hernández, “Ronda de los autorretratos con animal fabuloso y análisis de los dibujos neoyorquinos,” in FGL,
Dibujos
.
“great tribute … I hope to go”:
EC, 595.
“more affected”:
Jorge Guillén to Germaine Guillén (November 24, 1928), papers of Jorge Guillén, Wellesley College Archive.
“What do you mean”:
Ontañón and Moreiro,
Unos pocos amigos
, 122.
FGL gives talk on lullabies:
[Residencia de Estudiantes], 115; Francisco García Lorca to parents (December 1928), AFFGL; and Margarita Ucelay, “Homenaje a Federico García Lorca,” talk given at Instituto Internacional, Madrid (March 11, 1986). All passages from the lecture are taken from OC, III, 113–31.
FGL interview:
Giménez Caballero.
“the faggot poets”:
Buñuel,
Obra literaria
, 30.
“son of a bitch” and “pederastic news”:
Josep Playà Maset and Victor Fernández, “Buñuel escribe a Dalí,”
La Vanguardia
(Barcelona), Culture and Entertainment section, April 1, 1996.
Buñuel collaborates with Dalí:
Alberti,
La arboleda perdida
,
277;
Aub,
Conversaciones
, 67; Rodrigo,
Lorca-Dalí