Summary
Damir Zlatar Frey: Lorca kod
At the intersection of dream and reality, true and possible, between the muddy streets of Zagreb's Peščenica in the mid-20th century, the slopes of Medvednica, the Andalusian plains, the roadlessness of Madrid and New York, and the Istrian Redlands, the lives of two heroes are constantly intertwined - a young man, Gabriel, who is not understood by the environment because he is feminine, different, fragile, but fighting and persistent, and one from the greatest poets and playwrights of the twentieth century, Federico García Lorca. Through a constant dialogue that they lead all their lives in dreams, in letters between worlds, the drama of two artistic lives unfolds before us, two lives characterized by otherness and perseverance to be yourself, unique, uncompromising.
Damir Zlatar Frey in The Lorca Code writes a magnificent dedication to art and perseverance, but also to misunderstanding, constant denial of human nature, hatred and death. Skillfully interweaving the real and the surreal, Frey creates a symphony in which each movement has its own tempo, from melancholic to furious. Juicy like an orange, painful as a thorny pomegranate, The Lorca Code is a story about lovers beyond time and space, about artists who touch each other beyond the limits of knowledge, about people who see the world differently and are therefore a threat to everyone.
The Lorca Code is a triptych about love and betrayal, a poetic confrontation with the hypocrisy of institutions that continue to hide the real truth about the poet's execution, a novel about friends who will betray friends, about of fragility and strength that an artist can only find in another artist, about a life that does not exist without dreams and dreams that do not exist without love.
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