III Tragedies of Federico Garcia Lorca
Blood Wedding
Yerma
Bernarda Alba
In the Authorized Translations of Richard L. O'Connell and James Graham-Lujan.
With an Introduction by the Poet's Brother Francisco.
 

New Directions New York circa 1947 

stan dobry plus

str. 378

format 14 x 21 cm

waga 535 g

In "The House of Bernarda Alba", a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and needs. The other plays here also portray female characters whose desires are tragically and violently frustrated: a woman's longing for a child in "Yerma", and a bride's yearning for her lover in "Blood Wedding". All appeal for freedom and sexual and social equality, and are also passionate defences of the imagination: in Christopher Maurer's words, 'poetic drama unsurpassed by any writer of our time'.