Federico García Lorca

FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA (Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, 1898-Víznar to Alfacar, Granada, 1936).
"Bodas de Sangre", 1st Edition, 1935.
Print run of 1100 copies.
Publisher: Cruz y Raya. Ediciones del Árbol, Madrid.
Includes cardboard box.
Measurements: 22,5 x 18,2 cm.
Copies of this book in this exceptional condition are extremely rare. Federico García Lorca reached with Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding) one of the summits of the Spanish theater of the 20th century. First performed in 1933 and published in book form shortly thereafter, the play is part of Lorca's so-called "rural trilogy", along with Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba, and is a masterful synthesis of classical tragedy, popular tradition and poetry.
The present copy corresponds to the first edition published in 1935 by Cruz y Raya. Ediciones del Árbol, in Madrid. The edition had a limited print run of 1,100 copies, a circumstance that increases its bibliographic and collector interest, as it is a publication that appeared during the author's lifetime and within one of the most prestigious literary collections of the time.
Inspired by a real event that took place in rural Andalusia, Bodas de Sangre develops an intense drama marked by passion, honor, destiny and death. Lorca constructs a tragedy of profound symbolic force in which individual conflicts become an expression of universal tensions. The Moon, Death and the Andalusian landscape acquire a poetic dimension that transcends realism to place the work among the great dramatic texts of contemporary literature.
The publication by Cruz y Raya, a cultural project promoted by José Bergamín, also links the volume to one of the most outstanding intellectual centers of Republican Spain. The editions of this collection were characterized by their editorial care and for bringing together some of the most relevant figures of the literature and thought of their time.
From a bibliographical point of view, a first edition of Bodas de Sangre has a special value for having been printed just one year before Lorca's death and in a cultural context of extraordinary effervescence. Its limited print run and its relevance within the author's theatrical production make it a piece especially appreciated by bibliophiles, collectors and researchers.