Las mujeres de Federico García Lorca. Feminidad y feminidades en La casa de Bernarda Alba

Abstract

Federico García Lorca’s work is symbolist and polysemic, it feeds on Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian mythologies, as well as symbols of all kinds. Lorca sinks its roots in the ancestral of the Western culture and updates the tragedy of classical Greece adapting it to Spain in the first third of the twentieth century, as he builds heroines that succumb to inexorable fate due to their ungovernable drives. To understand García Lorca’s work, it is necessary to comprehend the atavistic of culture as a space-time continuum. The poet constantly moves between the avant-garde and tradition and this is manifested in his latest work, object of the present essay: The house of Bernarda Alba, according to the Lorcan scholars, its his masterpiece. This is a dramatic work, subtitled as "Drama of women in the towns of Spain" but cataloged as a tragedy since its theme, structure and treatment makes it understood more as a tragedy than as a drama, since it seems that the subtitle obeys more formal aspects than substantive ones.