La celestina - Softcover

Rojas, Fernando De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8479544929 ISBN 13: 9788479544928

Publisher: Libertarias Prodhufi, 1999

Synopsis

The racy and irreverent Spanish tragicomedy that is considered the first European novel -- in a spirited new translation

A Spanish Romeo and Juliet, Celestina was published in 1499 and became Spain's first-ever bestseller. Readers thrilled to the salty character of Celestina and her world of prostitutes and black magic even as they mourned the fate of Calisto and Melibea, the young lovers she unites using her wiles as a seller of perfumes and potions. Fernando de Rojas's exhilarating mix of street wit, obscenity, and cultured rhetoric mark Celestina as a masterpiece: an original, explosive, genre-defying work that paved the way for the picaresque novel and for Cervantes. (Clásicos Libertarias)

About this title

From the Publisher

A classic in Spanish literature.

About the Author

Professor Michael Stokes was emeritus Professor of Greek, University of Durham; formerly Lecturer in Greek, University of Edinburgh and Associate Professor of Classics at Cornell University. His publications include One and Many in Presocratic Philosophy (Center for Hellenic Studies, 1971) and Plato's Socratic Conversations (Athlone Press, London & Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986).

Edition details

• Publisher: Libertarias Prodhufi
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN 10: 8479544929
• ISBN 13: 9788479544928
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Benito De Lucas Joaquín