2023-05-28 16:41:52
the prolific Antony Gala He said that if he had to define himself, he would do so as a poet, because “poetry sustains all literary genres”, although it was the novel that gave him his greatest successes, with titles such as “The Turkish Passion”, as well as the theater, where the best actresses performed their scripts.
According to the website of his foundation, he wrote thirty plays, thirteen novels, six books of poetry, ten compilations of articles, ten biographical works or essays, five film scripts and five television adaptations.
Between “Intimate Enemy” (1959), with which he a second prize in the Adonáis poetry prizeand the book of reflections “Quintessence” (2012), these are some of the most relevant:
Novel
- “The Crimson Manuscript” (1990). His first novel, with which he won the Planeta Award, is a fictional autobiography of the last Nasrid king, Boabdil. It is built on a supposed finding of a crimson manuscript, the color of the paper used by the Chancellery of the Alhambra.
- “The Turkish Passion” (1993). It tells the passionate love story between Desideria, a Spanish Fine Arts teacher with a routine life with her husband, and the guide she meets on a trip with friends to Turkey, Yamán. It was successfully adapted to the cinema by Vicente Aranda in 1994 with Ana Belén as the protagonist.
- “Beyond the garden” (1995). Subtitled “A woman in search of herself”, Gala uses contemporary Seville as a setting, and specifically the remains of old Seville stately circles. Concha Velasco starred in her adaptation to the cinema in 1996, directed by Pedro Olea.
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theater
- “The Green Fields of Eden” (1963). National Calderón de la Barca Award, Gala’s first play premiered at the María Guerrero with José Bódalo in the lead role. It is the story of redemption, starring Juan, a free spirit who returns to his grandparents’ town with no other purpose than to live in peace.
- “Rings for a Lady” (1973). National Award for Literature, the Spectator and the Critic, María Asquerino swept as Antonio Gala’s muse in this work about Doña Jimena after the death of El Cid. Amparo Rivelles will also star in this great theatrical success.
- “Gift Petra” (1980). Julia Gutiérrez Caba brought Petra to life in the theater, a prostitute in rural Spain who rebels against oppression along with other mythical actors such as Aurora Redondo and Ismael Merlo.
Antony Gala
Poetry
- “Intimate enemy” (1959). “There are afternoons when everything/Smells of burnt juniper/And of the promised land”, begins the poem that gives the title to this work with which a young man Antonio Gala won a second prize in the Adonáis poetry prize.
- “Love poems” (1997). When this book was published, Gala explained that it collects “many, but not all of my love poems”, and defined it as “a secret in the ear between two people: author and reader”.
- “The soulless poem of Tobías” (2005). Story of a “journey in love” that “is like a novel” because it has “a very direct and descriptive poetry that anyone can understand” and in it it travels “throughout the world, except Oceania and including Córdoba”, explained its author about this work .
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