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Requiem Por Un Campesino Espanol (Spanish, Paperback)
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Rquiem por un campesino espaol, a short, elegant and moving account
of the tragic effects of the Spanish Civil War on a small Aragonese
population, is often called Ramn J. Sender's greatest masterpiece.
It was the author's own favorite book and -in his own words- of all
his novels it is "the simplest, and the most universal." This
characteristic of "universality" flows through all Sender's
writings, while he manages to still be the most Spanish of the
generation that began to write just before the onset of the Spanish
Civil War of 1936-39. As a journalist who allied himself with the
Republican side in the Spanish civil war, Sender (1901-82) was a
privileged eyewitness to Spain's struggle, suffering and defeat, a
situation he continued to write about after he left Spain in 1938.
While his texts are considered essential source material by
historians of this era, at the same time, the anguish and pain,
losses and victories of the profoundly Spanish characters are
portrayed as universal emotions and experiences that continue to
move readers of all nationalities. Within Hispanic literature,
Rquiem por un campesino espaol (first published in Mexico in 1953,
banned in Spain for many years) is considered to stand on a par
with Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea within North American
literature. Both are brief and profound, and recount intense,
dramatic stories that initially seem uncomplicated. They are both
important novels that in their brevity and apparent simplicity
continue to resonate with essential truths. Three qualities of the
novel are emphasized in the essay by Prof. Borja Rodrguez Gutirrez
that introduces this edition: the story's meticulous, mathematical
structure devised by a self aware writer; its use of reiteration of
certain key elements; and the carefully structured allegory with
which it transmits its denunciation of the injustice and treachery
that underlie history. The careful lexicographic notes included
will help the modern reader grasp the plot in all its dramatic,
Spanish, intensity.
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