Lorca After Life

A reflection on Federico Garca Lorcas life, his haunting death, and the fame that reinvigorated the marvelous in the modern world A galaxy of critical insights into the cultural shock waves circling and crisscrossing Lorcas execution and his unknown resting place, there is not a single book on Lorca like this one.Andrs Zamora, Vanderbilt University There is something fundamentally unfinished about the life and work of Federico Garca Lorca (18981936), and not simply because his life ended abruptly. Nol Valis reveals how this quality gives shape to the ways in which he has been continuously reimagined since his death. Lorcas execution at the start of the Spanish Civil War was not only horrific but transformative, setting in motion many of the poets afterlives. He is intimately tied to both an individual and a collective identity, as the peoples poet, a gay icon, and fabled member of a dead poets society. The specter of his violent death continues to haunt everything connected to Lorca, fueling the desire to fill in the gaps in the poets biography.