Celestina

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780300141993 Author(s): Margaret Sayers Peden Format: Paperback Language: English Year: 2012 Publisher: Yale University Press Pages: 288 Age: 18-17 Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters

Description: The first European novel, exquisitely translated by Margaret Sayers Peden A‚  A timeless story of love, morality, and tragedy, Fernando de RojasA?s Celestina is a classic of Spanish literature. Second only to DonQuixote in its cultural importance, RojasA?s dramatic dialogue presents the elaborate tale of a star-crossed courtship between the young nobleman Calisto and the beautiful maiden Melibea in fifteenth-century Spain. Their unforgettable saga plays out in vibrant exchanges, presented here in a brilliant new translation by award-winning translator Margaret Sayers Peden. A‚  After a chance encounter with Melibea entrances Calisto, he enlists the services of Celestina, an aged prostitute, madam, and procuress, to arrange another meeting. She promptly seizes control of the affair, guiding it through a series of mishaps before it meets its tragic end. At times a comic character and at others a self-assertive promoter of womenA?s sexual license, Celestina is an inimitable personality with a surprisingly modern consciousness, certain to be relished by a new generation of readers.

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