SPANISH

La Celestina. Tragicomedia de Calixto y Melibea

By Fernando De Rojas

Book information

Publisher
Espasa calpe
Year
1914
Language
spanish
Format
AZW3
Filesize
1 MB (1249953 bytes)
Pages
0\0
Time added
2019-11-06 16:47:17

Description

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.

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