“scene from an Athenian”:
[Quevedo], 17.
“Local, I take it?”:
Jesús Sabourín, “Federico García Lorca en Santiago de Cuba,”
Santiago de Cuba. Universidad de Oriente. Revista
I, 2 (March 1962), 2.
“If you write to me”:
[Quevedo], 37.
“I’ve forgotten”:
[Quevedo], 36.
“three or four hours” and “I am going to give”:
FGL, “The Poet Writes,” 285–86.
FGL disappears:
FGL, “The Poet Writes,” 286; [Quevedo], 18; Guillermo Cabrera Infante, “Brief Encounters in Havana,”
World Literature Today
61, 4 (Norman, Oklahoma, autumn 1987), 519–25.
“without tragedy”:
FGL, “Lecture: A Poet in New York,” 201. On FGL’s interest in Cuban blacks see also
G, II
, 102; and Isabel Cuchí Coll,
Del Madrid literario Madrid
1933–1934 (San Juan: Venezuela, 1935), 80.
“drop of Negro blood … better”:
FGL, “The Poet Writes,” 285.
“Oh, Cuba”:
EC, 691.
“gone native”:
Social
(Havana), May 1930, 6.
FGL embraces Cuban culture:
[Quevedo], 17, 25, 30–35; FGL, “The Poet Writes,” 284–85; Auclair, 399; Marinello, 20; Emilio Ballagas, “Recuerdo de García Lorca,”
Carteles
(Havana), July 24, 1938, 55.
FGL participates in strike:
Emilio Ballagas, “Recuerdo de García Lorca,”
Carteles
(Havana), July 24, 1938, 55. On FGL’s sympathy with the Cuban opposition see [Emilio Roig de Leuchsening], “Habladurías por ‘El Curioso Parlanchín.’ Federico García Lorca, poeta ipotrocasmo,”
Carteles
(Havana), April 27, 1930, 30, 46–47.
“What will become”:
EC, 668.
“What’s happening over there”:
EC, 688.
FGL and Cuban music:
Heraldo de Madrid
, October 9, 1930; Mathilde Pomès, “Une visite a Federico García Lorca,”
Le Journal des Poetes
5 (May 1950), 1;
FM
, 68; Adolfo Salazar, “El mito de Caimito,”
Carteles
(Havana), February 20, 1938; and Nicolás Guillén, “Recuerdos de García Lorca,”
Triunfo
, June 12, 1976, 17.
FGL writes “Son”:
Pérez Coterillo, 41; Auclair, 397; Marinello, 17–18, 20. It was in Santiago harbor that the Spanish fleet succumbed to the United States Navy in 1898, the year of FGL’s birth. As a result of the defeat, Spain lost Cuba, a fact that may account for the elegiac tone of FGL’s poem.
FGL with Quevedos:
[Quevedo];
G, II
, 93, 98; Ciro Bianchi Ross, “Aniversario. Federico en Cuba,”
Cuba International
XII, 130 (Havana, September 1980), 26; E. Dobos, “Nuevos datos sobre el viaje de Federico García Lorca por Cuba en el año 1930,”
Acta Litter aria. Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
XXII (Budapest, 1980), 397–98.
“invitation and surrender”:
Joseph Hergesheimer,
San Cristóbal de la Habana
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927), 197.
FGL with Cardoza y Aragón:
Cardoza y Aragón, 328, 350–58.
FGL rumored to have love affairs:
G,
II
, 92, 105–6; [Quevedo]; Guillermo Cabrera Infante, “Lorca hace llover en La Habana,”
Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos
433–36 (July-August 1986), 247–48; AFFGL (photograph archive).
FGL begins
The Audience:
The title of FGL’s
El público
is typically translated as “The Public”; because the Spanish “público,” however, means both “public” and “audience,” and because the notion of “audience” is at the heart of FGL’s play, I have elected to translate the title as
The Audience
. For details on the manuscript of
The Audience
see Martínez Nadal,
The Public
, 21–23; Martínez Nadal, introduction to FGL,
El público y Comedia sin título
, 26; and FGL,
Autógrafos
II.
“some sort of obese”:
Cardoza y Aragón, 352–53.
FGL with Loynaz family:
Pérez Coterillo, 40–42;
G, II
, 99–101; E. Dobos, “Nuevos datos sobre el viaje de Federico García Lorca por Cuba en el año 1930,”
Acta Litteraria
.
Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
XXII (Budapest, 1980), 398–99; Ciro Bianchi Ross, “Aniversario. Federico en Cuba,”
Cuba Internacional
XII, 130 (Havana, September 1980), 29–30; Dulce María Loynaz, “Comentarios” (unpublished ms., May 2, 1988), AFFGL.
FGL has surgery:
Auclair, 399; Eisenberg, “A Chronology,” 248; Fernández-Montesinos García, “Descripción,” 27; Dulce María Loynaz, “Comentarios” (unpublished ms., May 2, 1988), AFFGL; Salazar, “Federico en La Habana,” 30; Emilio Ballagas, “Recuerdo de García Lorca,”
Carteles
(Havana), July 24, 1938, 55; Luis Cardoza y Aragón, “Federico García Lorca,”
El Nacional
(Mexico), September 30, 1936.
FGL departs Cuba:
G, II
, 121–22; [Quevedo], 39; Pérez Coterillo, 42; Ciro Bianchi Ross, “Aniversario. Federico en Cuba,”
Cuba Internacional
XII, 130 (Havana, September 1980), 30; Marinello;
Diario de la Marina
(Havana), June 11 and 12, 1930. FGL’s ticket for the
Manuel Arnus
is stamped “departure” on June 12, 1930 (AFFGL).
Manuel Arnus
stops in New York:
Eisenberg, “A Chronology,” 249;
The New York Times
, June 18 and 19, 1930;
EC
, 689; Salazar, “La casa,” 30; Brickell, 394–95; Adams, 137.
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FGL writes to Martínez Nadaclass="underline"
EC
, 689–90. On FGL’s plans to revisit America see
EC
, 669, 693; and FGL interview with Miguel Pérez Ferrero,
Heraldo de Madrid
, October 9, 1930, in OC, III, 368–73.
Priest encounters FGL:
Vásquez Ocaña, 269–70.
“You could stay … charm”:
EC
, 692–93.
“terrible washing machines”:
EC
, 671.
FGL’s typical behavior at Huerta:
Rodrigo, “La Huerta,” 824–28; José Manuel Fajardo, “Granada: La sombra de García Lorca es alargada,”
Cambio
16, April 7, 1986, 123.
“keep up his spirits”:
“The Poet Writes,” 223.
FGL’s affection for mother:
Cano, 87–88; Peñón, 90.