En 2016 se cumple el 80 aniversario del asesinato, a los treinta y ocho anos de edad, de Federico Garcia Lorca, poeta y autor teatral de influencia determinante. Este libro profundiza en uno de los aspectos de su personalidad menos estudiados. Federico Garcia Lorca, el mas celebre autor de la llamada Generacion del 27, mantiene un halo especial en la memoria colectiva, sobre todo a causa desu asesinato en 1936 por los sublevados fascistas, entre otros motivos por su condicion de homosexual. Ian Gibson (Dublin, 1939) es un hispanista mundialmente reconocido, especializado en la guerra civil y posguerra espanolas, asi como en la vida de Federico Garcia Lorca, como lo demuestra en Poeta en Granada. Paseos con Federico Garcia Lorca (Ediciones B, 2015).

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

"Ian Gibson summarizes the author's life in this controversial study that analyzes Federico Garcia Lorca's life. We'll see his younger days in Granada, his traumatic first love, his 'heroic' twenties in Madrid, his trip to New York and Cuba, his continuous literary successes... and his terrible death.

Known primarily as a poet and dramatist, Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca published four books before his early death in the Spanish Civil War. This biography gives an account of his family, his homosexuality and his mysterious death, as well as tracing his literary development."