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Lorca after life

Lorca after life JOURNAL OF SPANISH CULTURAL STUDIES BOOK REVIEW Lorca after life, by Noël Valis, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2022, 456 pp., $65.00 (hardback), ISBN13 978-0300257861; $65.00 (ebook), ISBN13 978- In this rigorous and extensive monograph, Noël Valis proposes an exploration of Spanish poet, playwright and cultural icon Federico García Lorca and his unique position vis-à-vis the odd and fluid temporalities of life and death. Valis delves into the cultural impact of Lorca’s life and work in relation to his death and the circumstances surrounding his assassination and its aftermath, his link to dissident identities and sexualities, and to the historical avant-garde and artistic modernity of the early twentieth century, all of which make studying Lorca’s after- life, or Lorca after life, a fascinating endeavor. Part 1, containing three chapters, starts with a consideration of “Why Dead Poets Matter” in chapter 1. Valis situates Lorca’s legacy in a collective pantheon of writers, “dwelling on the sig- nificance of two nineteenth-century writers especially, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and José Zorrilla, as part of a dead poets society” (31), with Lorca as the culminating figure of a Spanish quest for a national poet, whose death led to his prominent place in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies Taylor & Francis

Lorca after life

López, Miguel García
Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies , Volume 26 (1): 3 – Jan 2, 2025
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JOURNAL OF SPANISH CULTURAL STUDIES BOOK REVIEW Lorca after life, by Noël Valis, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2022, 456 pp., $65.00 (hardback), ISBN13 978-0300257861; $65.00 (ebook), ISBN13 978- In this rigorous and extensive monograph, Noël Valis proposes an exploration of Spanish poet, playwright and cultural icon Federico García Lorca and his unique position vis-à-vis the odd and fluid temporalities of life and death. Valis delves into the cultural impact of Lorca’s life and work in relation to his death and the circumstances surrounding his assassination and its aftermath, his link to dissident identities and sexualities, and to the historical avant-garde and artistic modernity of the early twentieth century, all of which make studying Lorca’s after- life, or Lorca after life, a fascinating endeavor. Part 1, containing three chapters, starts with a consideration of “Why Dead Poets Matter” in chapter 1. Valis situates Lorca’s legacy in a collective pantheon of writers, “dwelling on the sig- nificance of two nineteenth-century writers especially, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and José Zorrilla, as part of a dead poets society” (31), with Lorca as the culminating figure of a Spanish quest for a national poet, whose death led to his prominent place in

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Published: Jan 2, 2025

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