Zóbel Reads Lorca: Poetry, Painting, and Perlimplín In Love
A cherished erotic play by Federico García Lorca, illustrated by a major Spanish artist.
 
Painting, poetry, and music come together in Zóbel Reads Lorca, as Fernando Zóbel, a Harvard student who would become one of Spain’s most famous painters, translates and illustrates Federico García Lorca’s haunting play about the wounds of love.
 
The premiere of Amor de Don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín, an “erotic allelujia” which Lorca once called his most cherished play, was shut down in 1928 by Spanish government censors who confiscated the manuscript and locked it away in the pornography section of a state archive. Lorca rewrote the work in New York, and an amateur theater group brought it to the Spanish stage a few years later. Since his death, the play has also been transformed into ballet and opera.
 
Zóbel Reads Lorca presents Zóbel’s previously unpublished translation and features contextual essays from several scholars. Art historian Felipe Pereda studies Lorca in the context of Zóbel’s development as a painter, Luis Fernández Cifuentes describes the precarious and much-debated state of the humanities in Zóbel’s Harvard and throughout the United States in the 1940s, and Christopher Maurer delves into musical and visual aspects of the play’s American productions.
 
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Zóbel Reads Lorca: Poetry, Painting, and Perlimplín In Love
A cherished erotic play by Federico García Lorca, illustrated by a major Spanish artist.
 
Painting, poetry, and music come together in Zóbel Reads Lorca, as Fernando Zóbel, a Harvard student who would become one of Spain’s most famous painters, translates and illustrates Federico García Lorca’s haunting play about the wounds of love.
 
The premiere of Amor de Don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín, an “erotic allelujia” which Lorca once called his most cherished play, was shut down in 1928 by Spanish government censors who confiscated the manuscript and locked it away in the pornography section of a state archive. Lorca rewrote the work in New York, and an amateur theater group brought it to the Spanish stage a few years later. Since his death, the play has also been transformed into ballet and opera.
 
Zóbel Reads Lorca presents Zóbel’s previously unpublished translation and features contextual essays from several scholars. Art historian Felipe Pereda studies Lorca in the context of Zóbel’s development as a painter, Luis Fernández Cifuentes describes the precarious and much-debated state of the humanities in Zóbel’s Harvard and throughout the United States in the 1940s, and Christopher Maurer delves into musical and visual aspects of the play’s American productions.
 
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A cherished erotic play by Federico García Lorca, illustrated by a major Spanish artist.
 
Painting, poetry, and music come together in Zóbel Reads Lorca, as Fernando Zóbel, a Harvard student who would become one of Spain’s most famous painters, translates and illustrates Federico García Lorca’s haunting play about the wounds of love.
 
The premiere of Amor de Don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín, an “erotic allelujia” which Lorca once called his most cherished play, was shut down in 1928 by Spanish government censors who confiscated the manuscript and locked it away in the pornography section of a state archive. Lorca rewrote the work in New York, and an amateur theater group brought it to the Spanish stage a few years later. Since his death, the play has also been transformed into ballet and opera.
 
Zóbel Reads Lorca presents Zóbel’s previously unpublished translation and features contextual essays from several scholars. Art historian Felipe Pereda studies Lorca in the context of Zóbel’s development as a painter, Luis Fernández Cifuentes describes the precarious and much-debated state of the humanities in Zóbel’s Harvard and throughout the United States in the 1940s, and Christopher Maurer delves into musical and visual aspects of the play’s American productions.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781736189337
Publisher: Swan Isle Press
Publication date: 11/24/2022
Edition description: Illustrated
Pages: 180
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) is Spain’s best-known and most beloved poet and playwright


Fernando Zóbel (Fernando Zóbel de Ayala, 1924-84), born in the Philippines, was a painter, scholar, and influential figure in the Spanish avant-garde. He founded Spain’s first museum of abstract art, the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, in the Casas Colgadas in Cuenca, Spain.  
 


Fernando Zóbel (Fernando Zóbel de Ayala, 1924-84), born in the Philippines, was a painter, scholar, and influential figure in the Spanish avant-garde. He founded Spain’s first museum of abstract art, the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, in the Casas Colgadas in Cuenca, Spain.  
 

Christopher Maurer is professor of Spanish at Boston University. He is editor and translator of Sebastian’s Arrows: Letters and Mementos of Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca, New Letters to a Young Poet, and The Complete Perfectionist, all published by Swan Isle Press.

Table of Contents

Preface
Marta Mateo vii
 
Zóbel Reads Lorca: The Painter’s Early Years in New England
Felipe Pereda 1
 
Zóbel’s Harvard and the 1940s Crisis in Higher Education
Luis Fernández Cifuentes 41
 
American Perlimplín
Christopher Maurer 63
 
About the Translation
Christopher Maurer 81
 
Federico García Lorca
Don Perlimplín in Love
Translated by Fernando Zóbel 83
 
Federico García Lorca
Music to Amor de Don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín

Arranged by Gustavo Pittaluga 123
 
From Stage to Page: A Perlimplín Chronology
Christopher Maurer and Lincoln Son Currie 127
 
Illustrations 141
 
Notes 145
 
Bibliography 165
 
Acknowledgments 171
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