Bodas de Sangre (Obra de Teatro) / Blood Wedding (a Play)

Una de las piezas teatrales imprescindibles de Federico Garc a Lorca.

Federico Garc a Lorca dirigi La Barraca, experiencia teatral decisiva para la escena espa ola. Desde 1918, cuando public su primer libro, hasta su muerte, no dej nunca de componer versos y escribir teatro. Austral presenta en este volumen Bodas de sangre, ejemplo esencial de su obra dram tica en el que construye una tragedia cargada de lirismo y de elementos simb licos a partir de un hecho real, de una peque a noticia del peri dico. Escenifica, en prosa y en verso, la cr nica llena de presagios de una pasi n, de la lucha por una mujer que lleva hasta la muerte a los dos rivales.

Quien fuera director de la Real Academia Espa ola, Fernando L zaro Carreter, analiza en su Introducci n la g nesis de la tragedia y su posici n en la obra de Lorca, desvelando su simbolog a y su significaci n ltima: Es la mujer la figura en que se anuda el hilo conductor de la tragedia: los hombres son simples contrapuntos, motivos externos de la pasi n de las mujeres.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

One of Federico Garc a Lorca's essential theatrical pieces.

Federico Garc a Lorca directed La Barraca, a pivotal theatrical experience for the Spanish stage. From 1918, when he published his first book, until his death, he never stopped composing poetry and writing plays. Austral presents in this volumeBlood Wedding an essential example of his dramatic work, where he constructs a tragedy filled with lyricism and symbolic elements based on a real event, a small newspaper article. He stages, in prose and verse, the foreboding chronicle of a passion, the struggle for a woman that leads two rivals to their deaths.

Fernando L zaro Carreter, former director of the Royal Spanish Academy, analyzes in his Introduction the genesis of the tragedy and its place in Lorca's work, revealing its symbolism and ultimate significance: "It is the woman who ties the thread of the tragedy: the men are mere counterpoints, external motives of the women's passion".