{"product_id":"la-casa-de-bernarda-alba-paperback","title":"La Casa de Bernarda Alba - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFederico García Lorca\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn the sweltering heat of an Andalusian summer, behind whitewashed walls and locked doors, five daughters are entombed alive.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir mother, Bernarda Alba - iron-willed, imperious, suffocating - has decreed eight years of mourning following the death of her second husband. No man may enter. No daughter may leave. The outside world, with its music, its desire, its dangerous freedom, is sealed away behind bolts and propriety and the crushing weight of what the neighbors might say.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut desire does not obey decrees.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst performed in 1936, just weeks before García Lorca's assassination at the hands of Francoist forces, \u003cem\u003eLa Casa de Bernarda Alba\u003c\/em\u003e stands as one of the twentieth century's most shattering theatrical masterpieces - and one of its most prophetic. The play pulses with everything that was about to be extinguished in Spain: passion, individuality, the rights of women to live and love on their own terms. Bernarda is not merely a tyrannical mother. She is the face of repression itself - of a society that sacrifices its most vital members on the altar of honor, appearance, and control.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe five daughters - Angustias, Magdalena, Amelia, Martirio, and the youngest, Adela - are not simply characters. They are a spectrum of responses to captivity: resignation, bitterness, envy, conspiracy, and finally, blazing, fatal rebellion. At the center of the drama burns the figure of Pepe el Romano, never seen on stage but felt in every room of the house like a lit fuse - desired by all, promised to one, and the instrument of destruction for another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGarcía Lorca wrote entirely in women's voices, and did so with extraordinary psychological precision. Every line carries the compressed tension of a household in which everything important is unsaid, every glance carries consequence, and the walls themselves seem to press inward. The play's three acts build with the inevitability of classical tragedy toward a conclusion that is both shocking and absolutely foreordained.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa Casa de Bernarda Alba\u003c\/em\u003e speaks directly to every generation that has known what it is to have freedom denied - by family, by society, by ideology, by fear. It is a play about women, but it is equally a play about power - who holds it, how it is maintained, and what it costs those who dare to resist it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is García Lorca at the full height of his powers - stripped of the poetry and surrealism of his earlier work, brutal in its realism, unflinching in its gaze. It is theater with the force of an accusation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 124\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 09, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48452305060089,"sku":"9798898780494","price":12.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/zcUmMlUQmR9798898780494.webp?v=1779947701","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/la-casa-de-bernarda-alba-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}