Objetives
- To identify, through the readings and notes in Federico García Lorca’s personal library, the main sources that shaped his youth and his creative sensibility.
- To analyze how writing served, for the young poet, as a means of questioning his own identity, a channel for expression and a way of bringing his inner contradictions into sharp focus against the backdrop of a conflict-ridden social reality.
- To reflect on Lorca’s aesthetic development, from romantic anguish to symbolist allusion and mystery as a literary style, as reflected in his first book, Impresiones y paisajes, and in his affinity with Machado and Juan Ramón Jiménez.
Resumen
This unit of the MOOC explores Federico García Lorca’s literary development through an analysis of his personal library and his early influences, showing how culture and poetry constituted, from the very beginning, a legacy and an essential resource for understanding, explaining, or concealing himself. Under the guidance of Luis García Montero, we examine how the underlined passages in the works of Unamuno and Oscar Wilde enabled the young writer to objectify a deeply conflicted inner reality and give vent to a struggle between the flesh and the spirit, shaped by social conventions. Furthermore, the unit explores the profound influence of Romanticism inherited through family memory via shared readings of Victor Hugo, whose legends and dramas undoubtedly shaped his later avant-garde and theatrical work.
Finally, it describes the Granada-born poet’s lyrical development as he transitioned towards the Symbolist tradition with Impresiones y paisajes, an evolution that values both what is said and what is left unsaid, establishing secrecy and an affinity with figures such as Antonio Machado and Juan Ramón Jiménez as essential pillars of his early literary style.
Content authors
- Luis García Montero. Full Professor, Department of Spanish Literature at the University of Granada.
Podcast
Listen to the episode: "Lorca's Literary Education" (text and voiceover created with AI tools for educational purposes).