“Ayer falleció Ignacio Sánchez Mejías,”
ABC
(Madrid), August 14, 1934, 27–29; Eduardo Palacio, “El porqué de la vuelta a los toros,”
ABC
(Madrid), August 14, 1934, 29;
FM
, 203; Antonio Garrigues, “Yo estaba allí,”
ABC Semanal
(Madrid), August 12, 1984, 13; Anderson,
Lorca’s Late Poetry
, 153–58;
ABC
(Madrid), August 15 and 16, 1934; “Sánchez Mejías ha muerto,”
El Cantábrico
(Santander), August 14, 1934, 4 (see also August 13–20, 1934); Saenz de la Calzada, 167; Auclair, 24–28, 257; author interview with María del Carmen Lasgoity.
“valiant”:
FGL, “Presentación de Ignacio Sánchez Mejías en Nueva York,” in OC, III, 199.
“Ignacio has just announced”:
Auclair, 21.
“through what minuscule chink mystery”:
Auclair, 29–30.
“elegy I never wanted”:
Manuscript copy of
Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías
, Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Mss. N.A., 180.
FGL drafts
Lament:
Auclair, 31; Rafael Gómez, “El manuscrito del ‘Llanto,’”
ABC Semanal
(Madrid), August 12, 1984, 19; Mario Hernández, introduction to FGL,
Divan
, 104; Juan de Loxa, “Con José Caballero en Fuen-tevaqueros. Recordando a Federico,”
Federico García Lorca-]osé Caballero
, ed. María Fernanda Thomas de Carranza (Granada: Patronato Cultural Federico García Lorca, 1987), 32;
FM
, 203.
FGL and the bullfight:
Anderson,
Lorca’s Late Poetry
, 158–71; FGL,
Sun and Shadow
, trans. Kathleen Raine and R. M. Nadal (London: Enitharmon Press, 1972); author interview with José Caballero; Eutimio Martín, “La actitud de Lorca ante el tema de los toros a través de cuatro cartas a José María de Cossío,”
Insula
322 (September 1973), 3; C, II, 106; FGL,
Alocuciones argentinas
, 20–23; FGL, “Presentación de Ignacio Sánchez Mejías en Nueva York,” in OC, III, 199–200; Miguel García-Posada, “Nota,” in FGL,
Oda y burla
, 102; Giovanni Papini, “Coloquio con García Lorca (o de las corridas),”
El libro negro
, trans. Mario Verdaguer (Barcelona: Plaza y Janés, 1962).
Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías:
All passages are taken from OC, I, 615–24, trans. FGL,
Collected Poems
.
“When I was composing”:
Vázquez Ocaña, 338.
“I was proud”:
Auclair, 31.
“dear friend Encarnación”:
OC, I, 616.
“A bull from the stable”:
José Caballero, “Recuerdos surrealistas con un perro andaluz,” in
El surrealismo
, ed. Antonio Bonet Correa (Madrid: Cátedra, 1983), 201.
“those who want to know him”:
Review by Miguel Pérez Ferrero,
Heraldo de Madrid
, May 9, 1935, 5.
“clear and strong … bad taste”:
Don Tertuliano, “Del momento. Llanto de Federico García Lorca, por la muerte de Ignacio Sánchez Mejías,”
La Provincia
(Huelva), May 14, 1935, 5.
“What I’ve written … other shore”:
Auclair, 32–33.
23. Revolution: 1934–1935
“last as long … upon sand”:
Silvio D’Amico, “Incontro con Federico García Lorca,” II
Dramma
(Turin), May 15, 1946 [1935], in OC, III, 572.
“enormous sense”:
Alardo Prats, “Los artistas en el ambiente de nuestro tiempo,”
El Sol
(Madrid), December 15, 1934, in OC, III, 542.
“I go on with my life”:
Alfredo Muñiz, “En los umbrales del estreno de Yerma,”
Heraldo de Madrid
, December 26, 1934, in
OC
, III, 548.
“profound movement”:
Miguel de Unamuno, “Hablemos de teatro,”
Ahora
(Madrid), September 19, 1934, 5.
“Come to Paris”:
Auclair, 258.
“The Congress invites”:
EC, 804. On Levi’s invitation to FGL, see Auclair, 258; Ezio Levi, “La Barraca di García Lorca,”
Scenario
3 (Milan, 1934), 528–30; and Juan Chabás, “Vacaciones de La Barraca,”
Luz
(Madrid), September 3, 1934, in OC, III, 539.
Political troubles, fall
1934: Thomas, 116–17; Jackson, 122, 143–47; Southworth, 3.
Asturian revolution:
Southworth, 7; Thomas, 117–28; Jackson, 161; Carlos Bauer, introduction to FGL,
The Public and Play without a Title
, xix; Peter Weyden,
The Passionate War
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983), 42; Jackson, 160; Preston, 29–30, 101–6.
“My God, why are these things”:
Luis Lacasa, “Recuerdo y trayectoria de Federico García Lorca,”
Literatura soviética
(Moscow, 1946), 42. Information on FGL’s fear of bullets comes from Vázquez Ocaña, 318, and author interview with Tomás Rodríguez Rapún.
“culminating moment” and “the liberation of Spain”:
Literatura y compromiso político en los años
30: Homenaje al poeta Juan Gil-Albert, exhibition catalogue (Diputación Provincial de Valencia, 1984), 34, 79.
“cruel poison”:
Moreno Villa, 208.
FGL’s response to Asturian revolution:
Saenz de la Calzada, 167; correspondence from Pujades to FGL (January 11, 1935), AFFGL; Frank Sedwick,
The Tragedy of Manuel Azaña and the Fate of the Spanish Republic
(Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1963), 136; Proel.
FGL encounters Primo de Rivera:
G, II
, 324–25. On Primo de Rivera see Thomas, 99–00, and Payne, 24–25. Others have recalled less dramatic encounters between FGL and Primo de Rivera at tertulias and football games (see Gabriel Celaya, “Recordando a García Lorca,
El Pais
[Madrid], June 10, 1976, and Margarita Saenz de la Calzada,
La Residencia de Estudiantes
. 1910–1936 [Madrid: CSIC, 1986], 76).
Neruda’s daughter:
Teitelboim, 168–72; OC, I, 643.
“at all hours”:
Proel. On FGL’s typical behavior, see Mariano Tudela,
Aquellas tertulias de Madrid
(Madrid: Avapiés, 1984), 90, 105; “Tertulias literarias,”
Almanaque Literario
(Madrid, 1935), 181; Saenz de la Calzada, 177; Altolaguirre,
Obras completas
I, 241; Moreno Villa, 148–49; Martínez Nadal,
The Public
, 11; Cernuda, “Federico García Lorca,” 16; author interview with José Caballero.
“an irresistible urge”:
“Llegó anoche Federico García Lorca,”