Resumen de Baroque Lorca: An Archaist Playwright for the New Stage, Andrés Pérez-Simón, Routledge, 2021
Many scholars have studied, analyzed, hypothesized, and philosophized about the life, literary works, motivations, and aspirations of Spanish writer, Federico García Lorca, so much so that the concept of Lorca, the writer, has reached mythic proportions. It is hard to determine what is myth and what is reality in terms of the life and literary creations of Lorca because of the mystery that surrounds him and his works, both finished and unfinished, and his untimely death by assassination at the young age of thirty-eight in 1936. In his book, Baroque Lorca: An Archaist Playwright for the New Stage, author Andrés Pérez-Simón meticulously unravels some of these mysteries, and his attention to detail in his analyses is phenomenal. Pérez-Simón carefully peels away the layers of the stories surrounding Lorca and his theatrical works, and in revealing each layer, the reader gains a better understanding of not only the theater of Lorca and Lorquian scholarship, but of the world of Lorca as a whole.
