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Celestina's Brood - Continuities of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin American Literature (Paperback)
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Celestina's Brood - Continuities of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin American Literature (Paperback)
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Published in 1499 and centered on the figure of a bawd and witch,
Fernando de Rojas' dark and disturbing "Celestina "was destined to
become the most suppressed classic in Spanish literary history.
Routinely ignored in Spanish letters, the book nonetheless echoes
through contemporary Spanish and Latin American literature. This is
the phenomenon that "Celestina's Brood" explores.
Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, one of the most eminent and
influential critics of Hispanic literature writing today, uses
Rojas' text as his starting point to offer an exploration of
modernity in the Hispanic literary tradition, and of the Baroque as
an expression of the modern. His analysis of Celestina reveals the
relentless probing of the limits of language and morality that mark
the work as the beginning of literary modernity in Spanish, and the
start of a tradition distinguished by a penchant for the excesses
of the Baroque. Gonzalez Echevarria pursues this tradition and its
meaning through the works of major figures such as Cervantes, Lope
de Vega, Calderon de la Barca, Alejo Carpentier, Carlos Fuentes,
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nicolas Guillen, and Severo Sarduy, as well
as through the works of lesser-known authors.
By revealing continuities of the Baroque, "Celestina's Brood" cuts
across conventional distinctions between Spanish and Latin American
literary traditions to show their profound and previously
unimagined affinity.
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