Garciacute;a Lorca at the Edge of Surrealism: The Aesthetics of Anguish examines the variations of surrealism and surrealist theories in the Spanish context; studied through the poetry; drama; and drawings of Federico Garciacute;a Lorca (1898ndash;1936). In contrast to the idealist and subconscious tenets espoused by surrealist leader Andreacute; Breton; which focus on the marvelous; automatic creative processes; and sublimated depictions of reality; Lorcarsquo;s surrealist impulse follows a trajectory more in line with the theories of French intellectuals such as Georges Bataille (1897ndash;1962); who was expelled from Bretonrsquo;s authoritative group. Bataille critiques the lofty goals and ideals of Bretonian surrealism in the pages of the cultural and anthropological review Documents (1929ndash;1930) in terms of a dissident surrealist ethno-poetics. This brand of the surreal underscores the prevalence of the bleak or darker aspects of reality: crisis; primitive sacrifice; the death drive; and the violent representation of existence portrayed through formless base matter such as blood; excrement; and fragmented bodies.The present study demonstrates that Bataillersquo;s theoretical and poetic expositions; including those dealing with lrsquo;informe (the formless) and the somber emptiness of the void; engage the trauma and anxiety of surrealist expression in Spain; particularly with reference to the anguish; desire; and death that figure so prominently in Spanish texts of the 1920s and 1930s often qualified as ldquo;surrealist.rdquo; Drawing extensively on the theoretical; cultural; and poetic texts of the period; Garciacute;a Lorca at the Edge of Surrealism offers the first book-length consideration of Bataillersquo;s thinking within the Spanish context; examined through the work of Lorca; a singular proponent of what is here referred to as a dissident Spanish surrealism. By reading Lorcarsquo;s ldquo;surrealistrdquo; texts (including Poetaen Nueva York;Viaje a la luna; and El puacute;blico) through the Bataillean lens; this volume both amplifies our understanding of the poetry and drama of one of the most important Spanish writers of the twentieth century and expands our perspective of what surrealism in Spain means.
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Review
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Maybe a little dated and I had to go through the text multiple times (but as a french speaker I think that the language difficulBy GabrielWondeful book. Maybe a little dated and I had to go through the text multiple times (but as a french speaker I think that the language difficulty is added to the pretty "strong" content). Anyway; this book is a must have for those who want to UNDERSTAND the whys and whats of pattern making. Dont dream; this is not a pattern-making book; you wont be a patternmaker; drafter or cutter after reading it; but youll have much more than that : the beginning (or complement if you already are advanced in the field of PMaking...) of an illumination about why certains things are how they are and how they work. And isnt understanding the key to further success and mastery?
