1925!1929: THE BIG CITY IN LORCA’S PRE!NEW YORK TEST LAB

Daniel Herrera Cepero

Abstract


Between 1925 and 1929, the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca undertakes a path of renovation and starts experimenting with new aesthetics. In these years, he writes a series of brief avant-garde dialogues, and the Prose poems, works that in many instances constitute real manifestos of aesthetical reflection, often wrapped in an allegorical weave. These texts feature for the first time the big city as a setting. Lorca places the artist in the metropolis suggesting the need of that urban experience as an essential factor to produce a coherent renovation in tune with the European Avant-Garde movements. Therefore, these works constitute route maps in which Lorca plans the steps to be taken in his life and work, when he is going through a deep personal and creative crisis. An analysis of “El paseo de Buster Keaton,» “Santa Lucía y San Lázaro,» and “Meditaciones a la muerte de la madre de Charlot» is posed to illustrate how these works serve Lorca as a virtual testing ground in which to weigh how a real experience in the metropolis would affect him. An experience
he would end up having on his trip to America in 1929-1930.


Keywords


Federico García Lorca– Poemas en prosa – Diálogos – “Santa Lucía y San Lázaro” – “El paseo de Buster Keaton” – “Meditaciones a la muerte de la madre de Charlot” – Poeta en Nueva York – Poesía y ciudad – Surrealismo

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