Publisher's Synopsis
Yerma es la tragedia en la que Federico Garcia Lorca desarrollo con mayor amplitud y relieve un tema central en su obra: el de la esterilidad y la fecundidad. Sobre la protagonista proyecto, sin duda, un problema personal intimo. Pero el alcance de la obra rebasa la significacion en dos direcciones: la universal mitica, apoyada en la creencia de que la fecundidad es una forma de salvacion, y la especificamente espanola. Yerma formaba parte de una -trilogia dramatica de la tierra espanola- y en ella se plantea un proceso critico a la moral sexual del pais. El subtitulo de -poema tragico- revela claramente la intencion estetica que, tras las huellas de Lope de Vega, lleva a Lorca a construir un mundo cuajado de simbolos y lirismo. Miguel Garcia-Posada, critico literario y especialista en la obra lorquiana, ofrece aqui una edicion enriquecida con el estudio de las versiones hasta hoy conocidas, incluido el original autografo, y construye, en la Introduccion, una lectura personal integradora de la mejor critica. Description in English: Barren is the tragedy in which Federico Garcia Lorca developed more widely and with greater highlight a central theme in his work: the sterility and fertility. On the protagonist he projected undoubtedly an intimate personal problem. But the scope of the work exceeded the significance in two directions: the universal myth, based on the belief that fertility is a way of salvation, and specifically on the Spanish. Barren was part of a dramatic trilogy of the Spanish land and in he criticized the sexual morality of that country. The subtitle of tragic poem clearly reveals the aesthetic intention that, following the footsteps of Lope de Vega, Lorca takes to build a world studded with symbols and lyricism. Miguel Garcia-Posada, critic, literary and specialist in Lorca's work, offers here and enriched edition with the study of the versions known until today, including the original autograph, and builds, in the Introduction, an integrated personal reading of the best criticism.
