A Lorca Collage

I love the internet.

Thanks to a recent comment on the first post of this blog, I have discovered this beautiful video. It's very tastefully put, with a variety of footage in it, including some of Garcia Lorca himself. I'd always imagined him arriving in towns and unloading his "barraca" and now, I got to see him doing just that, with a smile on his face. I find myself needing to share this here, in The A to Z of Spanish Culture blog and my own personal one. As with the best art, I'll just leave you to enjoy it.

Thanks to Carmen Ferreiro, as I discovered it through her own blog. http://carmenferreiroesteban.wordpress.com/.

Ian Gibson and Lorca

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.