I'm not sure he knows, but Ian Gibson's children went to the same school I did and him and is family lived in El Bosque in Madrid, just like I did.
The first time I heard about him was through my mother, who had quite a lot of respect for him. Many many years later, having exiled myself to London, I read one of his books "The Assasination of Garcia Lorca" and later watched a BBC series about Spain, which he presented and probably produced. Years later, for one of my birthdays, two of my friends gave me Lorca's biography, written by Gibson. It's the only book you need to find out everything about the poet and his work.
Gibson is obsessed with Lorca - can you blame him?
To read a recent interview with him, click here.
"Gibson is obsessed with Lorca - can you blame him?"
ReplyDeleteI certainly could not.
My obsession with Lorca dates back one year. But looking back in my live, I can see he was always there, in his poems when I was a child, in his plays as I got older, and in Leonard Cohen's ethereal rendering of his Waltz in Vienna.
But it may have been my watching him yearning so desperately for an unresponsive Dali in the British movie Little Ashes that made me understand the frustration behind his work. From there somehow his spirit grew in my mind into a character I included in my work in progress, Becquer Eternal. I couldn't let his disappearance being the last act on the biography of such extraordinary poet.
Thank you Pilar for this blog at his memory.
How wonderful Lorca served as inspiration for one of your character!
ReplyDeleteAs you mention, Lorca is part of most people's childhood, as his poems have become part of every child's song repertoire - La Tarara, El lagarto esta llorando etc