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smokingbootGarcia Lorca wrote an essay about La Duende; from its origins as some goblin of northern Spain, he either transformed it or detailed its transformation into a primal source of inspiration that seizes the artist and transcends all taught rules, force through form too passionate to be denied. Here are his words: https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Spanish/LorcaDuende.php and while they are lovely, I don't forget the goblin either.
Tonight at the Arbolea in Granada, was I really facing La Duende? Probably not but it was still beautiful, the guitarist turning strings to silk and the dancers moving like bulls among the lilies for him. The singer was good enough, a voice rather sweet for flamenco and perhaps suffering a little for being surrounded by the exceptionally gifted. The male dancer sent me the ghost of a wink. I smiled and turned my attention to his feet, and in response he proved his artistry time and time again.
In some pub I met a magical American, who told me of the shows up at the Museo de Cuevas in Sacromonte. My family have never responded well to me going into gypsy territory alone, but I could enjoy this a lot, it sounds spectacular.
Everything else? I will deal with it tomorrow. I deal with everything tomorrow.
'Manuel Torre, a man who had more culture in his veins than anyone I’ve known, on hearing Falla play his own Nocturno del Generalife spoke this splendid sentence: ‘All that has dark sounds has duende.’
-Federico Garcia Lorca.
Tonight at the Arbolea in Granada, was I really facing La Duende? Probably not but it was still beautiful, the guitarist turning strings to silk and the dancers moving like bulls among the lilies for him. The singer was good enough, a voice rather sweet for flamenco and perhaps suffering a little for being surrounded by the exceptionally gifted. The male dancer sent me the ghost of a wink. I smiled and turned my attention to his feet, and in response he proved his artistry time and time again.
In some pub I met a magical American, who told me of the shows up at the Museo de Cuevas in Sacromonte. My family have never responded well to me going into gypsy territory alone, but I could enjoy this a lot, it sounds spectacular.
Everything else? I will deal with it tomorrow. I deal with everything tomorrow.
'Manuel Torre, a man who had more culture in his veins than anyone I’ve known, on hearing Falla play his own Nocturno del Generalife spoke this splendid sentence: ‘All that has dark sounds has duende.’
-Federico Garcia Lorca.
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