{"id":7864,"date":"2021-08-10T07:58:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T07:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/obra-literaria\/lament-for-ignacio-sanchez-mejias\/"},"modified":"2021-10-15T12:13:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T12:13:50","slug":"lament-for-ignacio-sanchez-mejias","status":"publish","type":"obra_literaria","link":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/obra-literaria\/lament-for-ignacio-sanchez-mejias\/","title":{"rendered":"Lament for a bullfighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Lament for a Bullfighter<\/em> (<em>Llanto por Ignacio S\u00e1nchez Mej\u00edas<\/em>) is an elegy composed by four parts: The Goring and Death, Blood Spilt, The Body Lying Prone and Absent Soul inspired by the death of his friend the bullfighter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/personaje\/sanchez-mejias-ignacio\/\">Ignacio S\u00e1nchez Mej\u00edas<\/a> (Seville, June 6, 1891-Madrid, August 13, 1934).<\/p>\n<p>In it, the popular, the cultured, the autobiographical and the lyrical, the romance, the Alexandrine, the rhythm of the sole\u00e1, the fatality, the possible omen of his own death appear harmoniously&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The cry before being gored, death and the absence of his friend give rise to a <strong>secular elegy considered one of the best in Spanish literature of all time.<\/strong> The first reading of the book of poems was made by Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca on November 4, 1934 at the home of his friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/personaje\/morla-lynch-carlos\/\">Carlos Morla Lynch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7415,"template":"","genero_obra_literaria":[100],"class_list":["post-7864","obra_literaria","type-obra_literaria","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","genero_obra_literaria-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obra_literaria\/7864"}],"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\/7415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"genero_obra_literaria","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genero_obra_literaria?post=7864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}