Federico Garcia Lorca

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Federico Garcia Lorca Antonio Buero Vallejo
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1918-36

• The Generation of 98 and Modernismo
• First World War
• Decline of Generation of 98 and Modernismo
• ismos - a protest and rebellion against the
  absurdity of the war and the breakup of society
• 1927 a new generation of Spanish Literature
  shattered by the Civil War

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Federico Garcia Lorca 1898-1936

• An international figure and symbol of the
  conflict of the Civil War
• Common themes
• Love of Andalucia,
• a preoccupation with death and violence
• the passion and color of the gypsies
• the use of surrealistic symbols and experiment

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Trilogy of Dramas

• Blood Wedding
• Yerma
• The House of Bernarda Alba (1936
• Attack on the plight of women in Spain
• Lack of freedom, especially in small towns and in
  the country
• Stifles natural needs in favor of hypocritical
  appearnces
• Sexual frustration
• Psychological portrait of the women

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After the Civil War to the Present

• Losses of the exiles
• The novel and poetry flourish after 1942
• Theater is the weakest of the three genres
• Characteristics
• Abudance of literary prizes
• Wealth of traslations
• Trend toward literary prizes to South American
  writers

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Antonio Buero Vallego 1916-

• Outstanding dramatist of the the post Civil War
• Early plays how existentialist themes of anguish
  and suffering at the meaning of life
• A balance evident in his theater between complete
  pessimism and hopelessness and any unreal
  romanticism
• A present tendency toward the historical drama
  with an interest in the problems of the visionary
  or reformer facing an entrenched society and
  established patterns.

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