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As the cognoscenti define it, duende (pronounced DWEHN-deh) is a `magical quality, of a peculiarly Spanish nature, that raises a performance to peaks of enthrallment.
Whatever its derivation, duende as artistic inspiration found its apostle and guru in Andalusian-born Federico García Lorca, lyric poet and dramatist who was murdered in 1936, at age 38, in the early days of the Spanish Civil War.
In his Iberia (Random House, 1968), James A. Michener said duende “now dominates Spanish conversation” and “seems to have become the sine qua non of Spanish existence,” whereas in previous visits to Spain he had not heard it at all.
Aficionados of duende who enjoyed George Bria's exegesis, (“Duende: Gypsy Soul and Something More” [XV, 1], of its “magical quality,” should refer to the works of George Frazier, another of its champions.
Like Italian, Spanish has estro , from the Latin oestrus `gadfly' (English estrus ) to denote artistic inspiration (and female sexual heat), but duende goes further.