{"id":7843,"date":"2021-08-10T07:54:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T07:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/obra-literaria\/statements-and-interviews\/"},"modified":"2021-10-21T08:35:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T08:35:01","slug":"statements-and-interviews","status":"publish","type":"obra_literaria","link":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/obra-literaria\/statements-and-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Statements and interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

The interviews granted by Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca between 1927 and 1936 constitute a work in its own right, a kind of autobiography that covers a key decade in the writer’s life and work, from the meeting of the Seville Athenaeum where the Generation of ’27 was conceived to the summer of 1936, when he was shot in an unidentified place between V\u00edznar<\/a> and Alfacar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lorca was an excellent headline maker: “I am in love with the works I have not written”; “there is an agricultural complex in my life, as the psychoanalysts would call it”; “theater is the possession that rises from the book and becomes human” or “no true man believes in this nonsense of pure art\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lorca was very generous with the journalists; he accepted the interrogations at length and reserved for such encounters reflections and headlines that reveal his opinion on controversial issues<\/strong> (his positions with regard to politics and literature, for example) and which, added together, constitute a kind of personal account elaborated from oral improvisation and urgency.<\/p>\n

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Garc\u00eda Lorca interviewed by the journalist of ‘La Voz’ Felipe Morales in April 1936. Photo from the book ‘Lorca\u2019s Words’ by Rafael Inglada and V\u00edctor Fern\u00e1ndez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Together with the collection of letters, speeches and addresses, they constitute a unique corpus within the bibliography that sheds much light on certain aspects of his life and work and, in particular, on his relationship with Granada and the importance of his childhood in the Vega and his summer stays in the Huerta de San Vicente (San Vicente Farmhouse).<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The literary and vital importance of Lorca’s interviews -a newly invented journalistic genre in those times- is beyond doubt. Some of the phrases that are still quoted from the poet are not found in books, but in newspapers. Lorca was an excellent headline maker: “I am in love with the works I have not written”; “there is an agricultural complex in my life, as the psychoanalysts would call it”; “theater is the possession that rises from the book and becomes human” or “no true man believes in this nonsense of pure art any more\u201d.<\/p>\n

The interviews reveal the poet’s progressive social awareness in favor of the underprivileged,<\/strong> especially after his experience as artistic director of La Barraca<\/a> which allowed him to tour the most deprived villages of Castile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7846,"template":"","genero_obra_literaria":[103],"class_list":["post-7843","obra_literaria","type-obra_literaria","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","genero_obra_literaria-others"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obra_literaria\/7843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obra_literaria"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/obra_literaria"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"genero_obra_literaria","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genero_obra_literaria?post=7843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}