The ingenious gentleman and poet Federico García Lorca ascends to hell /

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Author / Creator:	Rojas, Carlos, 1928-2020
Uniform title:	Ingenioso hidalgo y poeta Federico García Lorca asciende a los infiernos. English
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2013.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 203 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	A Margellos world republic of letters book Margellos world republic of letters book.
Subject:	García Lorca, Federico, -- 1898-1936 -- Fiction. García Lorca, Federico, -- 1898-1936. Electronic books. Fiction.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11182360

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Other authors / contributors:	Grossman, Edith, 1936-
ISBN:	9780300195286 0300195281 9781299463608 1299463606 9780300167764 0300167768 0300205864 9780300205862
Notes:	Print version record.
Summary:	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 private hell, viewing scenes from his own life performed over and over and over. Unexpectedly, two doppelgängers appear, one a middle-aged Lorca, the other an irascible octogenarian self, and the poet faces a nightmarish confusion of alternative identities and destinies. Carlos Rojas uses a fantastic premise--García Lorca in hell--to reexamine the poet's life and speculate on alternatives to his tragic end. Rojas creates with a surrealist's eye and a moral philosopher's mind. He conjures a profoundly original world, and in so doing earns a place among such international peers as Gabriel García Márquez, Philip Roth, J.M. Coetzee, and José Saramago.
Other form:	Print version: Rojas, Carlos, 1928- Ingenioso hidalgo y poeta Federico García Lorca asciende a los infiernos. English. Ingenious gentleman and poet Federico García Lorca ascends to hell. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2013 9780300167764

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