Pierrot/Lorca : white carnival of black desire
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Pierrot/Lorca : white carnival of black desire
（Colección Támesis, ser. A ; Monografías ; 350）
Tamesis, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-159) and index
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Description
Peral Vega explores the importance of Pierrot as a symbol of failure in matters of love in Garcia Lorca's imagery and his literary and personal life.
Academic research has paid little attention to the importance of the figure of Pierrot in Garcia Lorca's imagery and, above all, in his literary and personal life. An image of marginality and failure, Pierrot was soon taken over by Spanish intellectuals of the early twentieth century as a representation of the bohemian spirit and, corresponding to his marginal status in matters of love, as a symbol of furtive desires experienced by those whose sexuality had to remain silent. Consequently, Garcia Lorca, as Pierrot, needs a mask to cover his identity, facing perpetual failure in his relentless pursuit of the other. As can be seen already from the poems, prose and plays of his youth,Garcia Lorca outlines in Pierrot his innermost self, a trend that will continue in the aforementioned series of drawings and some of his major pieces, such as El publico. Pierrot / Lorca: White Carnival of Black Desire aims, from a multidisciplinary perspective, to open new critical readings of both Garcia Lorca's work and some episodes of his life; as with, for example, his relationship with Salvador Dali, which can be presented in theatrical terms: Harlequin (Dali) / Pierrot (Garcia Lorca).
Emilio Peral Vega is Associate Professor of Spanish Literature at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Table of Contents
Prologue
A Modern Mask: from Deburau to The Tramp
First Examples of an Effeminate Pierrot: from Verlaine to Lorca
Pierrot / Lorca: Alter Ego for a Young Poet
Lorca / Pierrot: Between Painting and Theatre
Love Game and Masquerade: Dali / Lorca
Perlimplin / Lorca / Pierrot: Frustrated Desire
A White Clown for a Black Desire: El publico and Asi que pasen cinco anos
Epilogue
Bibliography
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