Un poeta en Nueva York

 So far I've looked at two graphic narratives about Lorca. One I have in print is by Carles Esquembre, Lorca: un poeta en Nueva York. As might be expected, the approach is biographical. I have another one on Kindle, La huella de Lorca, that I can't read very well because of my eyesight. Every medium in which adaptations of Lorca occur has a particular slant to it. With graphic novels / narratives, it tends to be biographical, whereas poems about Lorca tend to be elegiac, etc... [not a solid generalization in this case, but simple the first tendency to come to mind], art songs tend to present a childlike or folkloric Lorca, but are not biographical, not songs about Lorca.  

These are interesting slants or biases that we find. We say sesgo in Spanish. It tend to have a negative connotation, but all interpretation is slanted in one direction or another. Think of a flat coffee table with a marble on it. You put the marble in the center and it doesn't roll to one side or the other. The reception of a writer is never like that. The table is never flat, and two tables never have the exact contour. 

Esquembre's book is marvelous in some ways, especially bringing out the surrealism. Lorca has weird nightmares and visions. A realist style of drawing is needed for a surreal vision. There is definitely a lot of research and thinking that went into it, and it all adds up to a particular vision. The novelistic, or invented parts of it blend seamlessly with the biographical facts.