{"id":10756,"date":"2021-09-20T06:44:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T06:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/biography-of-federico-garcia-lorca\/the-attraction-of-death-1936\/"},"modified":"2021-10-14T08:00:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T08:00:57","slug":"the-attraction-of-death-1936","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/biography-of-federico-garcia-lorca\/the-attraction-of-death-1936\/","title":{"rendered":"The Attraction of Death (1936)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The same day of his departure to Granada, on July 13, aboard the night train, Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca gave his friend Rafael Mart\u00ednez Nadal<\/a> the manuscript of The Public<\/em><\/a>, a sample of his “unrepresentable” theater with the order to destroy it if anything happened to him.<\/p>\n

The newspaper El Defensor de Granada<\/em> announced Lorca’s arrival in a front-page article. The poet took refuge in the Huerta de San Vicente (San Vicente Farmhouse)<\/a> where he spent that tragic summer until his escape to the family home<\/a> of his friend Luis Rosales<\/a>. On July 20, the uprising triumphed in the city of Granada and began a fierce repression led by the civil governor Jos\u00e9 Vald\u00e9s<\/a> who followed instructions from General Queipo de Llano. One of the first arrested was his brother-in-law, Manuel Fern\u00e1ndez-Montesinos<\/a>, married to his sister Concha<\/a>, then socialist mayor of Granada. He was shot at the cemetery walls, along with the rest of the corporation and other important Republican politicians and intellectuals, on August 16, 1936.<\/p>\n

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Picture of Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca at Huerta de San Vicente. \/ Photo: FGL Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

During Lorca’s stay in the Farmhouse there were two searches. The first, on August 6, by a group of Falangists led by Manuel Rojas Feijesp\u00e1n<\/a>, who had been sentenced in 1934 to 21 years in prison for his actions in the massacre of Casas Viejas. On August 9, three days later, another group formed by volunteers who came mostly from Valderrubio and Pinos Puente under the command of a retired sergeant of the Civil Guard appeared in the Farmhouse: they were looking for the landlord Gabriel Perea<\/a> for him to confess the whereabouts of his brothers. Among the gunmen were Enrique Garc\u00eda Puertas<\/a>, known as El Marranero (The Pig Trader)<\/em>; two landowners and the brothers Horacio<\/a> and Miguel Rold\u00e1n, whose family had lost several lawsuits in the 1920s with Don Federico<\/a> over a property in Valderrubio. Gabriel Perea was tied to a cherry tree and mistreated in the presence of everyone. At that moment Lorca decided to flee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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