Spanish Literary Giants: Valle-Inclán and García Lorca

Ramón del Valle-Inclán and the Evolution of His Work

The Stage of Primitivism

In three years, Ramón del Valle-Inclán wrote Eagle of Honor, Wolf Romance, and the Romance of the Carlist Wars trilogy, which includes The Crusaders for the Cause, The Glow of the Fire, and Bigwigs of the Past. In the Carlist Wars trilogy, some events attend will temporarily close, but sometimes lived as if they occasionally happen in a very archaic manner.

The Stage of Artificial Distance

During the second decade of the twentieth century, Valle-Inclán writes mostly in verse. Works from this period are Voices of Deeds, La Marquesa Rosalinda, the Farce of the Dragon's Head for the Bewitched Child, and Italian Farce of Love with the King.

Phase of the Nonsensical

The year 1920 represents a major change in Galician literature. He publishes Italian Farce of Love with the King, Farce and License of the Queen, Divine Words, and Bohemian Lights.

Federico García Lorca: Life and Legacy

Federico García Lorca was born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, in 1898. In 1919, he moved to Madrid to the Residencia de Estudiantes and maintained a close relationship with Juan Ramón Jiménez and other artists of his time.

Success and Artistic Crisis

After publishing his first books and a play, brand success comes when he published in 1928 Gypsy Ballads. However, his typecasting as a "folclórico" writer did not satisfy the poet. He then underwent a sentimental crisis and received a scholarship to New York. He traveled to Cuba and returned to Spain, where he wrote two plays: The Public and When Five Years Pass, which gave a remarkable turnaround and personal aesthetic to his work.

Political Activism and Final Works

During the Second Republic, Lorca was politically active, leading the theatrical group La Barraca (The Cabin). Doña Rosita the Spinster represents the single woman and was criticized by conservatives. During the Civil War, he supported the Republic and finished the play The House of Bernarda Alba. He took refuge at the home of his friend and poet Luis Rosales and was shot soon after.

Themes and Poetic Vision

A music writer and actor, his own life was a continuous act of creation. His masterpiece reflects joy and happiness, as well as the deep undercurrent of unrest and uneasiness that also fills him. His first book of poems is titled Book of Poems. In it, he samples disenchantment, disappointment, frustration, rebellion, and death as central points.