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Celestina
[Paperback - 2009]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Classics
Additional Category: Literary Fiction - Humorous Fiction
Publisher: Penguin Classics | ISBN: 9780143106098 | Pages: 240
Shipping Weight: .197 | Dimensions: 5.13 x .66 x 7.7 inches

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.

We know little information about Fernando de Rojas, a Castilian author.He wroteLa Celestina, originally titledTragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea, in 1499. People see this description of a tragic love affair as the beginning of literary Renaissance of Spain. The author published anonymously but revealed his name and famous birthplace in an acrostic code at the beginning of the second edition in the year 1500. None of his contemporaries mention him, and we know of no other work.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand...

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