Easy Readers - Spanish - Level 3: Requiem Por Un Campesino Espanol - Softcover

Sender

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0850486157 ISBN 13: 9780850486155

Publisher: European Schoolbooks Ltd, 1994

Synopsis

"Requiem per un campesino espanol" was first published under the title Mosen Millan in Coleccion Aquelarre,Mexico, 1953. The present text follows the first Spanish edition published by Destino, Barcelona, 1974, which bears a few minor variants, mainly in paragraph structure. It has been reprinted a number of times and translated into many languages and is one of the most widely read Spanish texts in the 20th century. This edition is aimed primarily at sixth-formers and university undergraduates and the introduction and notes have been compiled in the light of recent socio-politial topic-based syllabuses and communication studies courses. The inclusion in the introduction of a substantial section on the now out-of-print "Contraataque" (1937), the wartime narrative which contains the germ of the post-war novel, is intended to provide the student with a context for the study of the process in Sender's writing inspired by the Civil War - from explicit militant propaganda penned in the heat of battle to implicit poetic parable, historical emotion recollected in the comparative tranquillity and distance of exile. It is hoped that such a juxtaposition will illuminate both the content and literary achievement of "Requiem".

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From the Publisher:

Three qualities of the novel are emphasized in the essay by Prof. Borja Rodríguez Gutiérrez that introduces this edition: the story's meticulous, mathematical structure devised by a self aware writer; its use of reiteration of certain key elements; and the carefully structured allegory with which it transmits its denunciation of the injustice and treachery that underlie history. The careful lexicographic notes included will help the modern reader grasp the plot in all its dramatic, Spanish, intensity.

About the Author:

Ramón J. Sender es uno de los más importantes narradores contemporáneos en lengua castellana. En 1935 le fue otorgado el Premio Nacional de Literatura por Mr. Witt en el Cantón. Al finalizar la guerra civil española se exilió y desde 1948 residió en Estados Unidos, donde ejerció como profesor de literatura en diversas universidades. Entre sus obras hay que mencionar especialmente: El lugar de un hombre (1939), Epitalamio del Prieto Trinidad (1942), La esfera (1947), El rey y la reina (1949), Carolus Rex (1963), Las criaturas saturnianas (1967) y Nocturno de los catorce (1971). Su obra más extensa y quizá la más conocida es la serie Crónica del alba (1942-1966).

About this edition

• Publisher: European Schoolbooks Ltd
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0850486157
• ISBN 13: 9780850486155
• Binding: Paperback