"Lavapies is the best village in Spain"
Ian Gibson, in the square-CRISTOBAL MANUEL Lavapiés
Ian Gibson (Dublin, April 21, 1939) is an Irish-born Hispanic and English citizen in 1984. It is known for his biographical works on Federico García Lorca, Salvador Dalí and Antonio Machado.
Gibson earned a degree in English Literature and French at Trinity College Dublin in 1960. He began his career at the University as professor of English at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland. In 1968 he went to the University of London, where he remained until 1975, when he decided to leave academic life and devote himself full time to writing, going to live in the south of France. Since 1972 he was reader (one grade below professor) Modern English Literature. After three years on French soil, the moved to Madrid, where he began writing the biography of Federico García Lorca. In 1991 he settled in El Valle, a small town located between Granada and the Mediterranean. There remain thirteen years until in 2004 he returned to Madrid to work in his biography of Antonio Machado.
During his stay at the University of London wrote his first book, The Nationalist repression of Granada in 1936 and the death of Federico García Lorca, published in English in France in 1971 by Iberian Turn. The book was immediately banned in Spain (in 1996 this book was adapted into a movie with the title Death in Granada). Subsequently addressed related to the Civil War the murder of José Calvo Sotelo or the killings of Paracuellos. In the biographical genre, also addressed the figures of Rubén Darío and Camilo Jose Cela.
is part, along with Hugh Thomas and Paul Preston, the Hispanic group in the British Isles has been devoted to studying the recent history of Spain, especially in the Second Republic and the Civil War. Apart from his literary work, has conducted an intensive journalism, radio and TV. Following the publication of his biography of Rubén Darío was elected a corresponding member of the Nicaraguan Academy of the English Language.
Gibson earned a degree in English Literature and French at Trinity College Dublin in 1960. He began his career at the University as professor of English at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland. In 1968 he went to the University of London, where he remained until 1975, when he decided to leave academic life and devote himself full time to writing, going to live in the south of France. Since 1972 he was reader (one grade below professor) Modern English Literature. After three years on French soil, the moved to Madrid, where he began writing the biography of Federico García Lorca. In 1991 he settled in El Valle, a small town located between Granada and the Mediterranean. There remain thirteen years until in 2004 he returned to Madrid to work in his biography of Antonio Machado.
During his stay at the University of London wrote his first book, The Nationalist repression of Granada in 1936 and the death of Federico García Lorca, published in English in France in 1971 by Iberian Turn. The book was immediately banned in Spain (in 1996 this book was adapted into a movie with the title Death in Granada). Subsequently addressed related to the Civil War the murder of José Calvo Sotelo or the killings of Paracuellos. In the biographical genre, also addressed the figures of Rubén Darío and Camilo Jose Cela.
is part, along with Hugh Thomas and Paul Preston, the Hispanic group in the British Isles has been devoted to studying the recent history of Spain, especially in the Second Republic and the Civil War. Apart from his literary work, has conducted an intensive journalism, radio and TV. Following the publication of his biography of Rubén Darío was elected a corresponding member of the Nicaraguan Academy of the English Language.
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Ellen Interview SEVILLANO - Madrid -
"Make me friendly if you can, I know it's difficult," he half-jokingly begged Ian Gibson (Dublin, 1939) portrays the photographer that the square of Lavapies. Wrong. It is very easy to get along with the historian and biographer of the likes of Garcia Lorca and Dali. A day earlier, the phone, did some praying. "It you're going to ask for the book I'm working and I can not talk about it." A white lie - "no, no, talk about the summer and other trivial things" - and Gibson has already accepted. Must be in Lavapies, the neighborhood where he has lived for five years. After the photos are on the bar Güishi Er. "Let's see if open. Antequera serve muffins. " Is, and it runs as a journalist who also wrote a biography of Lorca. "Of course quoting you all the time," the Hispanic piropea.
Question. So chilly that you would be in Dublin ...
Response. When I go there and do not know anyone. People ask me if I miss Dublin, and no, because I have inside. Constantly reread your Dublin Joyce and I have quite made up his mind and feelings. But I feel lost here, when I suffer. P.
Before he lived in a village in Granada. What brought you here?
R. The National Library, which is almost where I live, I was far away. I really am in Madrid and I have to be here, I need to Madrid. P.
The parties will be relieved Lavapiés August.
R. I have not gone far. I do not like the crowd noise. I'm no mass, but not snobbery, but it scares me a little. Also, I'm obsessed with what I'm doing. But sometimes I go out and take a drink or go to restaurants with my wife. P.
What about the other night?
R. Go to the movies or watch movies at home because I'm working on a biography of Luis Buñuel. Not only his 32 films, but the whole film world that surrounded him: Fritz Lang, Lubitsch, comedians like Buster Keaton, Chaplin, Harold Lloyd ... It's something new, because I've been mostly reading. It's a little embarrassing, but there are many films that I saw in his time. I saw Last Tango, which is my time. Who has not seen! P.
What is Lavapiés?
R. I came because I wanted to be next to the Reina Sofia, power walking. Occasionally jokingly asked my wife if we're going to Madrid. The great thing is that it's Lavapiés people, the people I like in Spain, because it is in Madrid. And up by these fabulous earrings. Montmartre is like the English. P.
Recommend a site that no one should miss.
R. The civil cemetery, that nobody knows. It's a small place, secluded, shady. Must see the grave of Salmon, with its inscription, "He left the office for not signing a death sentence." There are all the people of the First Republic, the Free Institution of Teaching, Jews, reds and the Masons. It is the most fabulous story book reading in August. P.
Give me a clue to this book that told her not to ask him.
R. Ah, no, I can not. It's just a test. P.
The simultaneous with the biography Buñuel.
R. Always work in two or three projects at once. Buñuel took a year and I will take another two. P.
In 15 days, delivery of the test. And then, vacation?
R. I Huelva 10 days. My holidays are usually related to the job. You should talk to my wife. Is far from being married to a biographer. I see the house of Juan Ramón Jiménez in Moguer because I see a role there. P.
Not from the beach.
R. I hate beaches. I like to teach the flab I've accumulated in front of the computer. I always say that in September I start the gym, but I do not. I have to do something. If I am almost half dead. I have almost 70 years. I I did not think I ever would. The others yes, but not me. It sucks, it's awful.
He laughs out loud and looked toward the bar. "Well, let's eat these muffins."
Response. When I go there and do not know anyone. People ask me if I miss Dublin, and no, because I have inside. Constantly reread your Dublin Joyce and I have quite made up his mind and feelings. But I feel lost here, when I suffer. P.
Before he lived in a village in Granada. What brought you here?
R. The National Library, which is almost where I live, I was far away. I really am in Madrid and I have to be here, I need to Madrid. P.
The parties will be relieved Lavapiés August.
R. I have not gone far. I do not like the crowd noise. I'm no mass, but not snobbery, but it scares me a little. Also, I'm obsessed with what I'm doing. But sometimes I go out and take a drink or go to restaurants with my wife. P.
What about the other night?
R. Go to the movies or watch movies at home because I'm working on a biography of Luis Buñuel. Not only his 32 films, but the whole film world that surrounded him: Fritz Lang, Lubitsch, comedians like Buster Keaton, Chaplin, Harold Lloyd ... It's something new, because I've been mostly reading. It's a little embarrassing, but there are many films that I saw in his time. I saw Last Tango, which is my time. Who has not seen! P.
What is Lavapiés?
R. I came because I wanted to be next to the Reina Sofia, power walking. Occasionally jokingly asked my wife if we're going to Madrid. The great thing is that it's Lavapiés people, the people I like in Spain, because it is in Madrid. And up by these fabulous earrings. Montmartre is like the English. P.
Recommend a site that no one should miss.
R. The civil cemetery, that nobody knows. It's a small place, secluded, shady. Must see the grave of Salmon, with its inscription, "He left the office for not signing a death sentence." There are all the people of the First Republic, the Free Institution of Teaching, Jews, reds and the Masons. It is the most fabulous story book reading in August. P.
Give me a clue to this book that told her not to ask him.
R. Ah, no, I can not. It's just a test. P.
The simultaneous with the biography Buñuel.
R. Always work in two or three projects at once. Buñuel took a year and I will take another two. P.
In 15 days, delivery of the test. And then, vacation?
R. I Huelva 10 days. My holidays are usually related to the job. You should talk to my wife. Is far from being married to a biographer. I see the house of Juan Ramón Jiménez in Moguer because I see a role there. P.
Not from the beach.
R. I hate beaches. I like to teach the flab I've accumulated in front of the computer. I always say that in September I start the gym, but I do not. I have to do something. If I am almost half dead. I have almost 70 years. I I did not think I ever would. The others yes, but not me. It sucks, it's awful.
He laughs out loud and looked toward the bar. "Well, let's eat these muffins."
