Underwater Words
Drawing on the collaboration that led him to write three librettos for José Evangelista, the author reflects on the musician’s relationship with literature, language, narrative structure, and tradition. To this end, duende, as theorised by Lorca, serves as a hermeneutical emblem, not by reductive regionalism but as an aesthetic principle that affirms body and combat. At the same time, it celebrates creative freedom which, for José Evangelista, is synonymous with human freedom.