Lorca After Life

“Brilliant and meticulously researched.”—Luis Fernández Cifuentes, Times Literary Supplement

“Lorca After Life defamiliarizes the writer by evoking something of the marvelous that characterizes his life, work, and times and that prevents us from ever fully comprehending him, whatever that would mean. . . . Lorca After Life is anything but predictable and does not back away from productive provocation.”—Jeffrey Zamostny, Romance Quarterly

“[An] exceptionally detailed study.”—Alan Contreras, Gay & Lesbian Review

“Lorca After Life is a compelling and engaging work on every level and should be on the reading list of everyone who wants to learn more about the Spanish poet, and how literary afterlives are always deeply ideological and heavily politicized.”—Bulletin of Spanish Studies

2023 PROSE Award winner in the Literature category

“A galaxy of critical insights into the cultural shock waves circling and crisscrossing Lorca’s execution and his unknown resting place, there is not a single book on Lorca like this one.”—Andrés Zamora, Vanderbilt University

“An example of cultural history at its best, Valis’s superbly written exploration of Lorca’s contested afterlives demonstrates once again why she is our leading scholar of modern Spanish letters.”—Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Columbia University

“Noël Valis elucidates the enduring appeal of the great Andalusian writer. Arguing that the bold nature of his gifts could not have been adequately appreciated in his brief life, she maintains that only the vastness of death can accommodate our growing understanding of Lorca’s innovative accomplishments.”—Jaime Manrique, author of Eminent Maricones