Margarita

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Book in Spanish

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child story.......2005-03-14

I was 5 years old when my aunt read this book to me and i never forgot about it. Whenever I felt I couldn't do something, i remembered the girl in the story, Margarita, and how she had achieved in getting her star. Another thing that always encouraged me was that the book was written for me: it is dedicated to all brave girls who ventured into the world to achieve their dream. The pictures were beautiful, and I always remembered the story. however, I never saw the book again until i was 13 years old and I was very glad to find it. Now it is very old and I have to buy a new for myself, but definitively, I will pass this book and story to my younger sisters and when I have my daughters. Up to this day, although I am 20 years old, whenever I feel down I read this book and Dario's poetry makes me remember my childhood, where i have come from and what do I have to do. I am very thankful to my aunt for reading me this inspiring book, and hopefully I will read this story to a child who needs it in the future....as I hope you would too.

ps. It is soo charismatic and melancholic as the little prince by saint exupery.

excellent and very enjoyable.......1998-10-23

This story is written for both adults and children. The Spanish flows beautifully. The book could definitely be used as a tool in teaching young children Spanish. The story is enchanting and wonderfully written.

Margarita,.......1998-04-15

This children's story, beautifully written by Ruben Dario, one of the most accomplished Spanish-speaking writers, was one of my favorite as a child. The verses flow like music and it is a perfect tool to help your children to develop a sense for Spanish poetry, while being transported to the magic setting of the story. This edition beautifully illustrated, has become a link between my childhood and and my children's.

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Dario's selected writings
A Darío for Our Time
A Master Poet
Embarrassingly bad

Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)
Ruben Dario
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
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ASIN: 0143039369

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Born in Nicaragua, Rubén Darío is known as the consummate leader of the Modernista movement, an esthetic trend that swept the Americas from Mexico to Argentina at the end of the nineteenth century. Seeking a language and a style that would distinguish the newly emergent nations from the old imperial power of Spain, Darío's writing offered a refreshingly new vision of the world—an artistic sensibility at once cosmopolitan and connected to the rhythms of nature. The first part of this collection presents Darío's most significant poems in a bilingual format and organized thematically in the way Darío himself envisioned them. The second part is devoted to Darío's prose, including short stories, fables, profiles, travel writing, reportage, opinion pieces, and letters. A sweeping biographical introduction by distinguished critic Ilan Stavans places Darío in historical and artistic context, not only in Latin America but in world literature.

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Dario's selected writings.......2007-02-20

I ordered 2 copies of this book. Delivery was prompt but one of the copies is defective, missing like 10 pages of the introduction. I was of course disappointed.

A Darío for Our Time.......2006-09-10

The poems, prose, and letters in this new edition of Rubén Darío's selected writings are indispensable for readers of poetry with an interest in world culture. Darío is no mere literary figure--though he is certainly major in that category--; Darío is a font and fountain of literature and sensibility that bespeaks the New World, and with the bilingual presentation in this book, his poetry speaks our language as well--better than well, beautifully. For the key element in such a volume is, of course, the translation, and here you find three distinguished, widely recognized translators muscially gifting you with their and Darío's voices in ranges you can sing along with by scanning the lefthand-page Spanish. Old favorites--"The Swans," for example--renew themselves here and new discoveries abound.
If you read poetry, perhaps even more if you write poetry, "Rubén Darío: Selected Writings" demands your attention--now!

A Master Poet.......2006-08-04

Along with Becquer, Ruben Dario is the wellspring of modern Spanish poetry. Poets who followed him-- from Juan Ramon Jimenez to Federico Garcia Lorca or Pablo Neruda-- recognized their debt to this Nicaraguan poet who (Lorca said) "taught maestros and children with a sense of universality and generosity lacking among today's poets. He taught Valle-Inclan and Juan Ramon and the Machado brothers, and his voice was water and saltpeter in the furrow of an ancient language.... Spanish had never known such a feast of words, such a clash of consanants, lights and forms [...] He captured the murmur of the jungle in a single adjective and like fray Luis de Leon, a master of language, he made stellar signals with the lemon and the hoof of a deer and with mollusks full of infinity and terror. He placed the sea - with frigates and shadows-- in the pupils of our eyes, and laid an enormous promenade of gin over the grayest afternoon the sky has ever known. He called the dark north wind by its first name-- all heart, like a Romantic poet--and laid his hand on the Corinthian capital with eternal sadness and ironic doubt." Dario's poetry is translated here by two American poets: Steven F. White, a leading authority on Nicaraguan literature, and Greg Simon, co-author of a memorable translation of "Poet in New York." Readers should be grateful for this selected Dario, which makes an ample selection of poetry and prose accessible to a new generation of English readers.

Embarrassingly bad.......2005-12-20

Ruben Dario was the first great Spanish symbolist poet and perhaps the greatest of all Latin American poets. It's good to see a substantial selection of his poetry in Spanish in accessible form. The English translations, however, are inept almost beyond belief. What the reader with some Spanish needs is a careful and competent trot, as in the wonderful "Penguin Book of Spanish Verse," where the translator gets every nuance.

What the reader gets is verse translations in which every consideration of meaning is subordinated to the need for rhyme. Moreover, the translators, in the interest of a spurious readability, make no attempt to suggest the orotund classicizing side of Dario's diction. I have the impression that many such poems, among Dario's best, have been suppressed as too difficult and/or unfashionable. Finally, the translators apparently wouldn't recognize a literary allusion or quotation in the original if it fell on them.

The Stavans introduction is just contemptible, as both biography and literary criticism. Stavans' prose style, as always, is just awful. Mr. Stavans, there is no such English word as "illusive"!

I've never written an Amazon review before, but then I've rarely approached a book with such high hopes and been so disappointed.

Stories and Poems/Cuentos y Poesias: A Dual-Language Book (Dual-Language Books)

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Another title; another gem.
Towering poet!
The best Ruben Dario book for the international fan

Stories and Poems/Cuentos y Poesias: A Dual-Language Book (Dual-Language Books)
Ruben Dario
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0486420655

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Nicaraguan poet and essayist Darío (the pen name of Félix Rubén García Sarmiento) is considered the high priest of the modernismo school of literature. This volume contains a rich selection of his best poems and stories from Azul (Blue), Prosas profanas (Worldly Hymns), and others. Accurate English translations appear on the facing pages.

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Another title; another gem........2006-08-03

You simply can't go wrong with this series. Here is one of the great names in Spanish literature, Rubén Darío, made even more accessible through the dual-language format. A must for teachers, students, and those of us will always be both!

Towering poet!.......2006-02-13

The egregious ascendancy of Latin American poetry ever born; Dario incarnates as nobody else the sublime beauty, nocturnal gaze, autumnal meditation and existential anguish tinged of a bucolic scent and contemplative mood.

Along his poetry it 's easy to certain to associate with Whitman in determined concerns; Dario visits the hospitals of the hell and makes his own journey; but besides, his dark reflections are impregnated with a visible tinge of spiritual penury and incurable hopeless.

Baroja stated once: the Castllian owns two great names: Valle Inclàn and Ruben Dario. Go for this invaluable book and ve part of that poetical iniverse.

The best Ruben Dario book for the international fan.......2004-02-17

I found this book to be very insightful into the mind of Ruben Dario. Having the translation in both languages gives the reader an accurate idea of what Dario wanted to express; and also gives the reader an accurate idea of why he chose certain words to say certain things. Some small detail I would have wished is that it contained the full lirical calendar, the autum, winter, spring, and fall poems. Overall, an exellent book.

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2 good points
A una Estrella
La Obra Maestra De Rubén Darío
Hermoso.

Azul... (Biblioteca Edaf)
Ruben Dario
Manufacturer: Edaf S.A.
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ASIN: 8441413347

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This book is written in Spanish.

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2 good points.......2005-07-25

The quality of the book is very good and what is nice as well is that it contains the preface by Juan Valera who wrote it for the second edition of the book.

A una Estrella.......2004-03-21

Yo quisiera saber mucho mas de lo que dicen la palabras escritas
por el Maestro Dario en ese ensallo de (Azul)titulado "A una Estrella". Mi conocimiento literario en el idioma Espanol es muy
limitado y desafortunadamente no me codeo con gente que tengan
la menor idea de lo que estoy hablando. Yo tengo varias preguntas
acerca de este "Ensallo" del maestro Dario, por ejemplo unas de mis
preguntas es: Cuando el maestro Dario se dirige "A una Estrella"...es en realidad que el se esta dirigiendo a una mujer
cual cuyo amor es inalcansable?...tengo otras muchas mas preguntas pero quisiera que alguien erudito en la materia me
contactara. Gracias, Benjamin

La Obra Maestra De Rubén Darío.......2001-04-25

"Azul" es una obra con la que facilmente podemos definir que tipo de escritor fue el célebre Rubén Darío. En este libro encontramos una puerta que nos hace ver mucho mas allá de lo que generalmente el ojo capta. Nos hace reconocer las realidades de nuestra sociedad y abrir la jaula en nuestra cabeza para que nuestros pensamientos vuelen...

Hermoso........2000-09-17

Me gustaría encontrar las palabras exactas para definir este libro, pero no las tengo. La verdad, es que este es uno de esos pocos libros que de definen por si mismos. Es un pasaje a un mundo oculto, lejos de nuestras persepciones, además de ser uno de los mas dignos ejemplos de literatura hispanoamericana.

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The Complete Short Stories!.......2004-07-26

If you are interested in Ruben Dario, the father of modernismo, how could you not get this book? It is essential. Of course I wish it was in English translation too, and I once thought of translating these stories myself, but I never found the time unfortunately. But okay, here's what you get...All the short stories of Ruben Dario. Yes, he is best known for his poetry, but his stories are great too, they show a lot of talent. Ruben Dario had an amazing imagination. I first got this book about 7-9 years ago and I had a fascination with Ruben Dario's stories. He definitely had a voice of his own and a unique style. I recommend this book very highly. Read his creepy stories, they are meant to amuse rather than scare. Much like Robert Louis Stevenson.

EXCELLENT.......1999-07-30

UN BUEN LIBRO PARA LEER Y APRENDER SOBRE RUBEN DARIO SU SENTIR Y SU VIDA GRABADA EN ESTE LIBRO.

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Azul/Blue, Poetry Book
Ruben Dario
Manufacturer: Editores Mexicanos Unidos, S.A.
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Azul Ruben Dario/ Ruben Dario Blue
Ruben Dario
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ASIN: 8460904636

Songs of Life and Hope/Cantos de vida y esperanza

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Bi-cultural, multi-lingual, North/South vision of Americas

Songs of Life and Hope/Cantos de vida y esperanza
Rubén Darío
Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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ASIN: 082233271X

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Renowned for its depth of feeling and musicality, the poetry of RubÃ©n DarÃo (1867–1916) has been revered by writers including Federico GarcÃa Lorca, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz. A leading figure in the movement known as modernismo, DarÃo created the modern Spanish lyric and permanently altered the course of Spanish poetry. Yet while his output has inspired a great deal of critical analysis and a scattering of translations, there has been, until now, no complete English translation of any of his books of poetry. This bilingual edition of DarÃo’s 1905 masterpiece, Cantos de vida y esperanza, fills a crucial gap in Hispanic and world literature studies. Will Derusha and Alberto Acereda have provided not only an elegant English translation of DarÃo’s work but also an authoritative version of the original Spanish text.

Written over the course of seven years and in many locales in Latin America and Europe, the poems in Cantos de vida y esperanza reflect both DarÃo’s anguished sense of modern life and his ecstatic visions of transcendence, freedom, and the transformative power of art. They reveal DarÃo’s familiarity with Spanish, French, and English literature and the wide range of his concernsâexistential, religious, erotic, and socio-political. Derusha and Acereda’s translation renders DarÃo’s themes with meticulous clarity and captures the structural and acoustic dimensions of the poet’s language in all its rhythmic sonority. Their introduction places this singular poetâarguably the greatest to emerge from Latin America in modern literatureâand his best and most widely known work in historical and literary context. An extensive glossary offers additional information, explaining terms related to modernismo, Hispanic history, mythological allusions, and artists and writers prominent at the turn of the last century.

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Bi-cultural, multi-lingual, North/South vision of Americas.......2004-04-06

in a carefully wrought and politically situated language of poesis that will not go away any day soon. This is a beautiful book carefully edited and annotated, well designed by Duke UP in English/Spanish interface-- a book that shows "nuestra America" is not in the hands of the rough riders and empire makers then or now, must reading for a poetics of poscoloniality situated in Nicaragua, Paris, Rome, and NYC...meaning the worlding world of poesis and vision coming out of the future in the 'afterlife' of real poetry. Abrazos and thanks...