by Ian Gibson · AGUILAR · tapa dura · ISBN 9788403096868
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«Ligero de equipaje» is the biography of Antonio Machado written by Ian Gibson, published by Aguilar in hardback (792 pages, in Spanish).
The book follows Antonio Machado from his Sevillian childhood to his death in Collioure in 1939. Gibson reconstructs his stages as a professor in Soria, Baeza and Segovia, his loves and the context of the Republic and the Civil War, with notes of literary criticism on works such as Soledades and Campos de Castilla.
First edition published on 23 March 2006 within the Otros Generales Aguilar collection.
Aimed at the general public interested in biographies of great writers and in the literary and political history of 20th-century Spain.
Ian Gibson is an Irish author and Hispanist known for his biographies of the poet Antonio Machado, the artist Salvador Dalí, the bibliographer Henry Spencer Ashbee, the filmmaker Luis Buñuel, and particularly his work on the poet and playwright Federico García Lorca, for which he won several awards, including the 1989 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography. His work, La represión nacionalista de Granada en 1936 y la muerte de Federico García Lorca was banned in Spain under Franco.
