{"product_id":"finding-duende-duende-play-and-theory-imagination-inspiration-evasion-paperback","title":"Finding Duende: Duende: Play and Theory Imagination, Inspiration, Evasion - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFederico García Lorca\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJosé Javier León\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eChristopher Maurer\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new translation of Federico García Lorca's captivating lecture on \u003ci\u003eduende\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For years, Federico García Lorca's lecture on\u003ci\u003e duende\u003c\/i\u003e has been a source of insight for writers and performers, including Ted Hughes, Nick Cave, Patti Smith, and Amanda Gorman. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDuende: Play and Theory\u003c\/i\u003e not only provides a path into Lorca's poetics and the arts of Spain; it is one of the strangest, most compelling accounts of inspiration ever offered by a poet. Contrasting the demon called duende with the Angel and the Muse, Lorca describes a mysterious telluric, diabolical current, an irreducible \"it,\" that can draw the best from both performer and audience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This new translation by Christopher Maurer, based on a thoroughly revised edition of the Spanish original of 1933, also included in this volume, offers a more accurate and fully annotated version of the lecture, with an introduction by eminent philologist José Javier León. Drawing on a deep knowledge of flamenco, and correcting decades of discussion about duende and its supposed origins in Spanish folklore and popular speech, León shows to what extent the concept of duende--understood as the imp of artistic inspiration--was the playful, yet deadly serious, invention of Lorca himself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Lorca's bravura performance of duende is foreshadowed here with a bilingual version--the most complete ever--of his other major text on inspiration, \"Imagination, Inspiration, Evasion,\" in which he calls for greater freedom in poetry as if searching for duende and its \"constant baptism of newly created things.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFederico García Lorca \u003c\/b\u003e(1898-1936) is Spain's best-known and most beloved poet and playwright\u003cb\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJosé Javier León\u003c\/b\u003e teaches at the Center of Modern Languages, University of Granada, and is the author of numerous books and articles, including \u003ci\u003eBolero: El vicio de quererte\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eChristopher Maurer\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of Spanish at Boston University. He is editor and translator of \u003ci\u003eSebastian's Arrows: Letters and Mementos of Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Letters to a Young Poet\u003c\/i\u003e by Joan Margarit, and \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Perfectionist\u003c\/i\u003e by Juan Ramón Jiménez, all published by Swan Isle Press. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 24, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764601028896,"sku":"9781736189375","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/897532b43be72b41027f8493486f4de6.webp?v=1780253222","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/finding-duende-duende-play-and-theory-imagination-inspiration-evasion-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}