Un libro unico

La gran dibujante y contadora de historias que es Ilu Ros aborda ahora la vida y obra de Federico Garcia Lorca. Su Federico esta lleno de pasion, arte, vida y poesia. Un fino y riguroso trabajo documental que ilustra con su trazo libre, evocador, personalisimo. Una joya. -Elvira Lindo

Sabemos mucho de el, pero ?como imaginarnos a Federico? Haciendo que las palabras de sus labios regresen al interior de sus sentimientos y sus razones. Eso es lo que hace Ilu Ros. Propone una cita con Garcia Lorca que es un dialogo generacional, una mirada del presente al pasado y del pasado al presente. La palabra hoy lleva en su interior un mundo ilustrado. -Luis Garcia Montero

Federico solo hay uno. No le hacen falta apellidos. Un nombre que reconocen tanto ninos como adultos, que suena a duende, a cante jondo y a romance popular, pero tambien a la vanguardia mas rompedora. Un nombre que encarna la alegria y las sombras de Espana, la epoca mas brillante de nuestra cultura desde la Edad de Oro, pero tambien la guerra y la verguenza de un pueblo que nunca podra perdonarse la muerte del poeta que mas lo representaba.

En este libro escuchamos las voces de aquellos que lo conocieron, desde su familia cercana hasta la legion de amigos y amigas que lo frecuentaron en sus anos granadinos, en las juergas liricas de la Residencia de Estudiantes o a lo largo de su intensa vida literaria. Y, por supuesto, la suya propia: la del poeta, la del dramaturgo, la del conferenciante, con la claridad de unas ideas que hoy tienen la misma fuerza, y, por n, la voz desnuda del hijo, del hermano y del amante enamorado. Ilu Ros fusiona voces y palabras con sus ilustraciones, que nos arrastran como la magnetica personalidad de Federico Garcia Lorca: icono de generaciones pasadas, presentes y futuras.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A unique book.

The great artist and storyteller Ilu Ros addresses the life and work of Federico Garcia Lorca. Her Federico is full of passion, art, life, and poetry. It is a fine and rigorous documentary work, illustrated with her free, evocative, and very personal style. It’s a jewel. -Elvira Lindo

We know much about him. But how do we create a picture of Federico? By making the words from his lips return to the depths of his emotions and motives. This is what Ilu Ros does. She schedules a date with Garcia Lorca, a generational dialogue, an insight from the present to the past, and from the past to the present. The word ‘today’ carries an illustrated world inside. -Luis Garcia Montero

There is only one Federico. He doesn’t need any last names. It is a name known to both children and adults alike. A name that carries the sound of duende, of cante jondo, of a romance of the people, but that is also at the most game-changing avantgarde. A name that embodies the joys and shadows of Spain, the most brilliant time in our culture since the golden age, as well as the war and the shame of a people that will never forgive itself for the death of its most distinctive poet.

Within these pages we hear the voices of those who knew him, his closest relatives and the legion of friends that visited him during his years in Granada, in the lyric parties at the Students Residence, or throughout his intense literary life. And of course, his own voice, the voice of the poet, of the playwright, of the speaker, with ideas so clear, and just as strong today. It is the voice of the son, the brother, the lover. Ilu Ros blends voices and words with her illustrations, pulling at us just like Federico Garcia Lorca’s magnetic personality, icon of generations past, present, and future.