Download or read book Theory and Play of the Duende written by Federico García Lorca and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Duende originated in Spanish folklore as a small malevolent creature similar to a troll or a tomte. The word comes from dueño de casa, meaning "master of the house." Federico García Lorca first articulated a cultural aesthetics of the Duende in this public lecture from 1933, imagining it as the guiding spirit of all Spanish art: a dark force that holds death and beauty in the same hand, and flinches away from neither."--Back flap.