Lola Flores

It has been repeated many times that a journalist from The New York Times, seeing Lola Flores perform, wrote: "She doesn't sing, she doesn't dance, don't miss her." The phrase is great, without a doubt, but the coolest thing is that no journalist wrote that anywhere: the slogan was invented by Lola Flores herself. In the seventies of the last century, a young writer who said yes to everything he was asked to do, agreed to write a book about Lola Flores: he was somewhere between a poem and a biography, an intellectual essay that aspired to do a sociology of the Lola Flores phenomenon , whom he saw as the archetype of the Petenera... Francisco Umbral investigated the figure of Lola Flores, in her conversion into a national myth, in this book that we are republishing now, completing it with other later texts in which the great writer, to the annoyance of the great Lola recognized her as the "incarnation of the Spain of the tambourine and the lerele". It's not a biography, it's not a poem, don't miss it.