Z. Carandell, Lecture de Poeta en Nueva York. García Lorca ou la déréliction lyrique - Poetry and Poetics

French Literature Reviews - 2026

Z. Carandell, Lecture de Poeta en Nueva York. García Lorca ou la déréliction lyrique
Poetry and Poetics

Lecture de Poeta en Nueva York. García Lorca ou la déréliction lyrique

Zoraida Carandell

Presses Universitaires de Rennes, coll. "Didact Espagnol", 2020.

248 p.

25.00 €

ISBN : 978-2-7535-8105-0

García Lorca’s poetic masterpiece, Poeta en Nueva York, published posthumously in 1940, did not receive a critical edition based on the original manuscript until 2013. In France, two doctoral dissertations have been dedicated to it: the pioneering work by Eutimio Martín and this study by Zoraida Carandell, published here in an abridged, revised, and updated version.

Contents

Lorca’s New York Cycle and the Avant-Gardes

  • Poeta en Nueva York in its True Essence
  • Lorca and the Poetry of the Silver Age
  • The Crisis of the Lyrical Subject

The Text-Subject: A Dialogue with Oneself

  • The Split Subject: Utterance and Enunciation
  • The Intermittences of the Voice
  • From Interlocution to Stream of Consciousness
  • “Church Abandoned. Ballad of the Great War”

The Text-World: An Introspection of the Other

  • Lyrical Address, from Elegy to Ode
  • Metaphysics of the Object

Federico García Lorca composed Poeta en Nueva York following his experiences in the United States between 1929 and 1930. This collection represents a departure from his earlier themes, embracing techniques associated with the avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century. The book is situated within the broader context of the Silver Age of Spanish literature, a period of significant cultural production in Spain.

This study examines the structural and thematic elements of Poeta en Nueva York, including the crisis of the lyrical subject, the dialogue with oneself, and the metaphysics of the object. It addresses the intermittences of the voice, the text-world, and the use of lyrical address. Readers interested in the intersection of Spanish avant-garde poetry and the crisis of the lyrical subject may find this study relevant.