{"id":10730,"date":"2021-09-20T06:39:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T06:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/biography-of-federico-garcia-lorca\/don-alhambro-and-a-rooster-1928\/"},"modified":"2021-10-08T07:34:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T07:34:45","slug":"don-alhambro-and-a-rooster-1928","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/biography-of-federico-garcia-lorca\/don-alhambro-and-a-rooster-1928\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Alhambro and a Rooster (1928)"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a very long preparation, Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca managed to bring to light in February 1928 gallo (rooster)<\/em>, the magazine he had so eagerly devised but which only lasted two issues. The history of the publication began two years earlier with the founding of the Ateneo de Granada<\/a> by former members of the\u00a0El Rinconcillo\u00a0<\/a>tertulia. Lorca himself recounted the origin of the magazine in the words of presentation of the first issue: “With Constantino Ruiz Carnero<\/a> [editor of the newspaper\u00a0El Defensor de Granada]<\/em>, Jos\u00e9 Mora Guarnido<\/a>, Miguel Pizarro<\/a>, Pepe Fern\u00e1ndez-Montesinos, Antonio Gallego<\/a> [who later became the first mayor of the city in the Franco regime], Paquito Soriano<\/a>, Jos\u00e9 Navarro<\/a> and others, we took long walks through the Vega and the first hills of the Sierra talking about a magazine, a newspaper expressing people\u2019s views, which would sing to the four winds this living beauty”.<\/p>\n

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Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca and the journalist Constantino Ruiz Carnero.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The endeavor was not easy. Federico, who rarely came to Granada, tried to incorporate in the project all his friends, not only those from Granada. He appealed to Dal\u00ed<\/a>, to Francisco Ayala<\/a>, to his brother Francisco<\/a> (who assumed the direction), to Jos\u00e9 Bergam\u00edn<\/a>, Jorge Guill\u00e9n<\/a>, who did reciprocate, and others who, although they accepted, never sent the committed text. Among them were\u00a0Manuel de Falla<\/a>, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda de Coss\u00edo or Benjam\u00edn Jarn\u00e9s. Imaginary signatories also appeared, such as Don Alhambro, an Indian from Granada who, on his return from Guatemala, stands as a symbolic critic of the crudely traditionalist legends.<\/p>\n

What was gallo<\/em>? Federico presented it as “the Magazine of Granada, for outside Granada, a magazine that gathers the heartbeat of everywhere to better know what is its own: a living magazine, anti-localist, anti-provincial, of the world.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Between one issue and another came Pavo (Turkey)<\/em>, a singular anti-gallo<\/em> replica invented by gallo<\/em>‘s own editors who posed as reactionary creators. Although Federico gathered contributions for a third issue, it never saw the light of day.<\/p>\n

Why did gallo<\/em> fail? The magazine, which aspired to be universal, became a localist product by including certain cutting remarks against the Granada bourgeoisie that nobody understood outside the city.<\/p>\n

1928 was not a good year for personal relations. The friendship with Falla suffered a serious setback after Federico dedicated to him in the Revista de Occidente<\/em> in 1928 the Ode to the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar<\/em> which the musician, a strict Catholic, considered very daring, breaking off his sentimental relationship with Emilio Aladr\u00e9n<\/a> and distancing himself from Dal\u00ed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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