Four Major Plays (Oxford World's Classics) Paperback – 9 Oct. 2008

A very handsome edition of Four Major Plays, in clean condition and speedily delivered. Good service!

Good Translation and Concise Introduction.

I spend a lot of time in Spain. There's a particular feel I only get there..ghosts of the civil war dead still linger in narrow white and yellow lanes..pine scented memories of hillside retreats..escaping on the run. Those haunted ashes are to be found, of course, in the brush strokes of Picasso...and earlier national and personal turmoil in the dark paintings of Goya..Lorca conjured that spirit..that strange Spanish heartbeat that echoes through the times..he called it "duende"...and that soul lives on in these pages. It's not drama for the sake of drama, but nothing less than the big themes of the 20th century..Freudian Gordian knots, war, sex, dreams..Macbeth-like family ambition, blood soaked and vital. Lorca was one of the many disappeared. But he never really vanished. Only physically. What remains are more than cold dead ashes.