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    Lorca's Women
    Lorca's Women
    Lorca's Women
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    Lorca's Women

    By Alessia Balan

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    LORCA'S WOMEN are some of the women in the poetic and theatre world of Federico Garcia Lorca who, through these stories, acquire an identity of their own and new life.

    Bernarda, Yerma, Soledad and the Bride urgently pursue a passion or the madness of an obsession, to escape from the life others have chosen for them.

    Argentinita is the only woman in the collection not created by the imagination of Lorca. She was his lifelong friend and artistic collaborator.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlessia Balan
    Release dateSep 25, 2014
    ISBN9786050323627
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    LORCA'S WOMEN are some of the women in the poetic and theatre world of Federico Garcia Lorca who, through these stories, acquire an identity of their own and new life.

    Bernarda, Yerma, Soledad and the Bride urgently pursue a passion or the madness of an obsession, to escape from the life others have chosen for them.

    Argentinita is the only woman in the collection not created by the imagination of Lorca. She was his lifelong friend and artistic collaborator. 

    Bernarda

    Bernarda was afraid of ending up like her mother, the madwoman, shut up in her rooms so nobody had to listen to her. Bernarda was afraid of the truth: the tongue is loosened when the mind is set free. Until then she had managed to keep life – her own and that of her daughters - under control. Others knew what she decided to let them know. That’s how it had always been, and rightly so. Doubtless there were snakes out there, but at home, it was Bernarda who decided what was the truth.

    So why was she afraid? Because of those lapses of memory. For some time now, she might find herself in a room and no longer know why she had gone into it. Or she would put down some embroidery she was working on and forget where she had left it.

    So far, they had been isolated incidents, but there was something not right in her head, as had happened to her mother… Something she had inherited, perhaps, a worm that was eating away at the family. And if it got worse? If she no was no longer able to understand what was happening to her? If something irreparable occurred...

    Bernarda tormented herself with these thoughts as, seated on an armchair, she continued embroidering: sheets for the dowry of her eldest daughter, Rosaria. The armchair was her command post: from there she could see the window, the entrance and the staircase going up to the rooms above. From that privileged position — partly through a play of mirrors — she could see into the small living-room, which the few guests to the house needed to pass through. She could see and hear everything. She would have liked the whole world to pass before her keyhole, but at the same time, she worried that something important was escaping her.

    Luckily, Pilar, her faithful governess, was there to update

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