culture books garcia lorca

culture books garcia lorca

Half a loaf and a book.
Federico García Lorca utterance of the people of Fuente Vaqueros (Granada). September, 1931.

"When someone goes to the theater or a concert or a party of any nature whatsoever, whether the party is to your liking, immediately recalls and regrets that he wants people who are not there." What I would like this to me sister, my father ', he thinks, and no longer enjoys the show but through a slight melancholy. This is the sadness I feel, not by the people of my house, that would be small and mean, but for all creatures that lack of media and unfortunately yours does not have the highest good of the beauty that is life and goodness and serenity and passion.

So I have not ever a book, because few buy gifts that are infinite, and so here I am honored and delighted to open the town library, the first probably in the whole province of Granada.

Not live by bread alone man. I, if I was hungry and helpless in the street would not ask a loaf, but half a loaf and ask a book. And I attacked violently here only speak of economic demands without ever naming cultural demands is what the people are crying. Well is that all men eat, but that all men know. Enjoying all the fruits of the human spirit because the opposite is turning them into machines at the service of state, is turned into slaves of a terrible social organization.

I have a lot more sorry for a man who wants to know and not that of a starving man. For a hungry can easily satisfy their hunger with a piece of bread or some fruit, but a man who is longing to know and has no means, suffers a terrible agony because they are books, books, many books they need and where are these books?

Books! Books! Makes a magic word here is to say, 'love, love,' and people should pray for as we ask for bread or as long for rain for their crops. When the famous Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the father of the Russian Revolution more than Lenin, was a prisoner in Siberia, far from the world, four walls and desolate plains surrounded by endless snow, and relief requested in a letter to his distant family just say, 'Send me books, books, many books for that my soul does not die! ". He was cold and did not require fire, terrible thirst had not asked for water, called books, ie horizons, ie ladders to climb the summit of the mind and heart. Because the physical agony, biological, natural, of a body hungry, thirsty or cold, hard, little, very little, but the agony of unsatisfied soul lasts a lifetime.

He has already said the great Menéndez Pidal, one of the wise more true in Europe, that the motto of the Republic must be: 'Culture'. Culture because only through it can solve the problems being discussed today the people full of faith, but lacking in light.