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LORCA (FEDERICO GARCÍA) Impresiones y paisajes, FIRST EDITION, Granada, P.V. Traveset, [1918]
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LORCA (FEDERICO GARCÍA)
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LORCA'S EXTREMELY RARE FIRST BOOK. According to Carlos Morla Linch (En España con Federico García Lorca, 1957), so few copies were sold that the disillusioned writer gathered together those he could find and set them on fire. Institutional copies are very scarce (the Biblioteca Nacional has a copy, but none appear on WorldCat), and three copies are listed on Rare Book Hub.
Impresiones y paisajes, published in April 1918 at the expense of Lorca's father, is a collection of lyrical prose pieces written by the 20-year old aspiring writer during a series of four trips he made through Castile, Léon and Galicia in 1916 and 1917. He was accompanied by some fellow students and a professor from the university, Martín Domínguez Berrueta, who encouraged him to publish his account. 1917 proved to be a turning point in Lorca's life: he met Antonio Machado in Baeza, and on his return to Granada (despite dedicating the book to his former music teacher and befriending the composer Manuel de Falla), he abandoned his music studies and turned his hand to writing poetry. See illustration on preceding page.



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