Pierrot/Lorca: White Carnival of Black Desire [Spanish]

Peral Vega explores the importance of Pierrot as a symbol of failure in matters of love in Garc a Lorca's imagery and his literary and personal life.

Academic research has paid little attention to the importance of the figure of Pierrot in Garc a Lorca's imagery and, above all, in his literary and personal life. An image of marginality and failure, Pierrot was soon taken over by Spanish intellectuals of the early twentieth century as a representation of the bohemian spirit and, corresponding to his marginal status in matters of love, as a symbol of furtive desires experienced by those whose sexuality had to remain silent. Consequently, Garc a Lorca, as Pierrot, needs a mask to cover his identity, facing perpetual failure in his relentless pursuit of the other. As can be seen already from the poems, prose and plays of his youth, Garc a Lorca outlines in Pierrot his innermost self, a trend that will continue in the aforementioned series of drawings and some of his major pieces, such as El p blico. Pierrot / Lorca: White Carnival of Black Desire aims, from a multidisciplinary perspective, to open new critical readings of both Garc a Lorca's work and some episodes of his life; as with, for example, his relationship with Salvador Dal , which can be presented in theatrical terms: Harlequin (Dal ) / Pierrot (Garc a Lorca).

Emilio Peral Vega is Associate Professor of Spanish Literature at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.