On 19 August 1936, at the age of 38, internationally revered poet, musician, dramatist, and all-round artistic renaissance man Federico García Lorca was assassinated before sunrise in Granada by anti-republican rebels (mostly falangists and fascists) during the Spanish Civil War.Lorca: A Dream of Life , "have never been found . . . For decades, the precise spot near Vísnar, where [Lorca] and hundreds of others were shot and buried in shallow graves, remained an official secret, a pockmarked landscape few dared to visit, much less inspect, for fear of arrest by the Civil Guard . . . In 1986, eleven years after Franco's death and the restitution of democracy to Spain, the socialist government of Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez constructed a monument on the site of Lorca's execution."Gypsy Ballads ) and 13 plays — Blood Wedding the most successful of same — bore his name (and the stamp of his genius). His astonishing prolificity is further evidenced by the fact that, upon his death, a trio of plays had yet to be produced (among them his best, The House of Bernarda Alba ) and no fewer than three poetry collections readied for publication (including the monumentally breathtaking Poet in New York ).did indeed dally with Lorca) as well as filmmaker Luis Buñuel who "was appalled by Dali's attachment to Lorca. Perhaps because he resented Lorca's refusal to collaborate with him on a film the previous year, or more probably because he detected Lorca's homosexuality and objected to it, Buñuel had come to loathe what he described as Lorca's 'extreme narcissism' and 'terrible aestheticism.'"Federico García Lorca: A Life or Paul Binding's 1985 analysis, Lorca: The Gay Imagination , her work fails to adequately illuminate the utterly essential connection between Lorca's homosexuality and his aesthetic vision, a feature most tellingly revealed in the fact that she refrains from including the well-known description (among Lorca aficionados) of the way in which the bullet which felled the giant entered his body:
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