La celestina / Celestina

Publisher Marketing: La emocion, la belleza, el sentido tragico y al mismo tiempo grotesco de las grandes pasiones humanas hallan en La Celestina una de sus mas intensas expresiones. El -loco amor- de Calisto y Melibea, enhebrado con los hilos de una -bruja-, Celestina, culmina fatalmente con la muerte de ambos. Fernando de Rojas es capaz de contarnos esta historia con una habilidad insospechada, que ata al lector a un texto poderoso y magnifico y que obra el milagro de llenar de pasion la lectura misma. Esta edicion incluye una introduccion que contextualiza la obra, un aparato de notas, una cronologia y una bibliografia esencial, asi como tambien varias propuestas de discusion y debate en torno a la lectura. Esta al cuidado de Santiago Lopez-Rios, profesor de literatura espanola de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. English Description 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. " Contributor Bio:  De Rojas, Fernando Lesley Byrd Simpson was a renowned translator of many great works of Spanish literature. His translations of "The Celestina "and "The Poem of the Cid "(both UC Press books) in particular preserve the vigor and colloquial flavor of the original.