Celestina by Fernando Rojas (c. 1465-1541) (Hispanic Classics) Soft cover - 1987
by Dorothy Sherman Severin; James Mabbe
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- Title Celestina by Fernando Rojas (c. 1465-1541) (Hispanic Classics)
- Author Dorothy Sherman Severin; James Mabbe
- Binding Soft cover
- Edition 1st Edition - R
- Condition New
- Pages 429
- Volumes 1
- Language SPA
- Publisher Aris & Phillips, Warminster
- Date 1987
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # c102124
- ISBN 9780856683459 / 0856683450
- Weight 1.42 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 8.48 x 6.16 x 0.85 in (21.54 x 15.65 x 2.16 cm)
- Size 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 88160584
- Dewey Decimal Code 862.2
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Summary
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.