G, II
, 488. Accounts differ as to whether the requested sum was 1,000 or 2,000 pesetas; the note itself has not been preserved.
Friends respond to news of FGL’s death:
Lilice Valenzuela, “Los pasos cubanos de García Lorca,”
La Habana
, August 23, 1986, 5; Neruda,
Passions and Impressions
, 59–60. Juan Ramón Jiménez, “Federico García Lorca, cárdeno,” in
Españoles de tres mundos
, ed. Ricardo Gullón (Madrid: Aguilar, 1969), 343; Salinas, “Federico García Lorca”; Teitelboim, 205–7; Antonio Machado,
Selected Poems
, trans. Alan S. Trueblood (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982), 265.
“stupid regime … hatred for intelligence”:
José Bergamín, “Unamuno, testigo excepcional. Dos cartas inéditas en víspera de su muerte,”
Historia 16
I, 7 (1976), trans. GM, xxvi.
The Spanish Civil War:
See Peter Weyden,
The Passionate War
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983) and Thomas,
The Spanish Civil War
.
Rapún’s death:
Tomás Rodríguez Rapún Archive.
False reports of Benavente’s and others’ deaths:
Ideal
(Granada), August 21, 1936, 2, and August 22, 1936, 1; G, 77, 479–80; Gibson,
El asesinato
, 229–30.
Government issues death certificate:
Gibson,
The Assassination
, 124.
Lorca family’s post-war activities:
FM
, xxviii-xxx; author conversation with Manuel Fernández-Montesinos.
Generation of ’27
in exile: C. B. Morris,
A Generation of Spanish Poets
1920–1936 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971), 233–46.
“The moment I learned the most apolitical poet on earth”:
Alain Bosquet,
Entretien avec Salvador Dalí
(Paris: Pierre Belfond, 1966), 50, and Salvador Dalí,
The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
, 3rd ed. (London: Vision Press, 1968), 361.
“an extraordinary creature”:
Guillén, “Federico en persona,” xvii.
“something that walks,” “unpredictable path” and “Poetry has no limits … of oil”:
María Luz Morales, “Conversaciones,”
La Voz
(Madrid), April 7, 1936, in OC, III, 628–29.
“four thousand five hundred”:
“Garcia Lorca ante el teatro. Sus recuerdos de Buenos Aires,” Transradio Española (May 1935), in OC, III, 566.
“I’m in love”:
Nicolás González-Deleito, “Federico García Lorca y el teatro de hoy,”
Escena
1 (Madrid, May 1935), in OC, III, 565.
A Note on the Author
Leslie Stainton holds a BA in Drama from Franklin and Marshall College and an MFA in Theater from the University of Massachusetts. During her work on this book she received two Fulbright research grants to Spain, and assisted the Lorca family in editing and cataloguing Lorca’s unpublished theatre manuscripts. She has published essays and articles in the New York Times, American Theatre, the Washington Post, and a number of scholarly journals, including the Boletín de la Fundación Federico García Lorca. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and is co-author of the annual desk diary On Writers and Writing.
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Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to quote from the following sources:
To Herederos de Federico García Lorca and the respective translators of the English translations of poems from: Federico García Lorca, Collected Poems. Ed. Christopher Maurer (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990) and Federico García Lorca, Poet in New York. Ed. Christopher Maurer (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988)
To the publishers for extracts from: Federico García Lorca, Deep Song and Other Prose. Ed. and trans. Christopher Maurer. 3rd ed. (New York: New Directions, 1980, and London: Marion Boyars, 1980); Federico García Lorca, Selected Letters. Ed. and trans. David Gershator. (New York: New Directions, 1983); Francisco Garcia Lorca, In the Green Morning: Memories of Federico. Trans. Christopher Maurer (New York: New Directions, 1986); How a City Sings from November to November, limited edition (San Francisco: Cadmus Editions, 1982)
To the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres (Spain), with thanks, for extracts from the writings of Salvador Dalí
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