La Profecia Celestina: Una Aventura

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INFORMACION QUE SE ESPERABA.......2000-03-25

Este libro presenta conceptos que algunas personas ya manejabamos, me llegó como una reafirmación al trabajo que estamos realizando. todas las personas deben de leer este libro para entrar a la corriente evolutiva del planeta. Este libro ya se volvió un clásico en la literatura universal.

EXCELENTE.

Cambió mi actitud ante la vida.......1998-08-22

No se si sea un libro de superación personal, pero en cada una de las iluminaciones, encontré algo positivo que aplicar a mi vida personal. Y conste que normalmente soy una persona super escéptica. Además me gustó porque es sumamente digerible (fácil y agradable de leer). Me gustan las historias que involucran cosas del mundo maya. Repito que soy de naturaleza escéptica, pero al final del libro ya tenía yo en mis manos formas palpables de cosas que siempre sentí en el aire, como el amor, la importancia de agradecer los alimentos y comerlos con gusto y conciencia, y sobre todo: pensar siempre de manera positiva.

All people should read "The Fundamental Trues".......1997-07-22

A Profecia celestina é um livro muito empolgante, quando você começa a ler não quer mais parar, pois a cada instante o livro revela coisas que são úteis no nosso dia a dia e que nos dão uma nova imagem da vida humana. O livro nos leva à consciência que as coincidências têm uma razão de ser, e trata isso de uma forma coerente e não muito filosófica. Gostei muito desse livro... Márcia Cristina Mendes Deischl (Brasil

Es uno de los libros mas interesantes que he leido........1997-03-18

Tuve conocimiento de este libro a travez de un amigo que me encontre en un avión viajando para Miami. En cuanto llegue a la librería mas proxima, lo compré y ahi comenzo mi aventura y deleite en este libro

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Celestina (Hispanic Classics)
Fernando De Rojas
Manufacturer: Aris & Phillips
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ASIN: 0856683442

Classic Spanish Stories and Plays : The Great Works of Spanish Literature for Intermediate Students

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Very high quality
Painless short intro to Spanish lit
Great Intro To Spanish Literature & Culture
A Perfect Aid To Learning Spanish
Great book for intermediate students of the Spanish language

Classic Spanish Stories and Plays : The Great Works of Spanish Literature for Intermediate Students
Marcel C. Andrade
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ASIN: 0658011383

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Spanning El Cid (1140) to El burlador de Sevilla (1630), Classic Spanish Stories and Plays contains eight great Spanish classics works including Don Quixote, one of the masterpieces of world literature. Expertly abridged and adapted for the intermediate learner, each tale and play includes ample cultural notes and translations of difficult words. An extensive vocabulary is included at the back of the book.

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Very high quality.......2007-09-18

A superb effort . A real pleasure to use . Just the right ammount of background is provided in the footnotes . I'm very fussy , but I cannot find fault with this book . Highly recommended .

Painless short intro to Spanish lit.......2006-05-09

This is a review of Classic Spanish Stories and Plays, adapted by Marcel C. Andrade. McGraw-Hill, 2001 (ISBN 0658011383).

After finishing Spanish IV at my community college, I started Don Quijote with the aid of Tom Lathrop's `Don Quijote Dictionary.' Even with the dictionary, Cervantes was slow going, so I decided to retrace my steps and gain some reading practice with something simpler. That's when I found this book. It contains eight Spanish stories (El Cid, Los cuentos el conde Lucanor, La Celestina, Lazarillo de Tormes, Don Quijote, Fuenteovejuna, La verdad sospechosa, and El burlador de Sevilla) greatly simplified for the intermediate student. (NB: an `intermediate' student knows what past subjunctive and conditional are.) I found that the editor's glosses matched my knowledge pretty closely; e.g. I very rarely had to look up a word that wasn't glossed. By the way, a vocabulary is included in the back of almost every word used in the text. Footnotes are used to explain cultural issues, though the notes to Don Quijote makes me think Andrade doesn't have a lot of sympathy with that ingenioso hildago.

All stories except Don Quijote are complete. But Andrade judiciously adapts chapter by chapter with Don Quijote, and includes only fourteen. He stops with the narrator finding the Arabic continuation of the tale by Cide Hamete Beningeli. Having read that far of the real Don Quijote, I enjoyed reinforcing my vocabulary with the glossing, and I liked being able to enjoy the story without looking up every fourth word.

My goal in Spanish is to read it semi-fluently. The only way to attain that goal is to read, read, read. Andrade's Spanish reader makes that possible, and rather painlessly at that. It's an excellent choice for any intermediate student who wants reading practice and doesn't mind gaining a superficial knowledge of some Spanish literary masterpieces at the same time - highly recommended.

Great Intro To Spanish Literature & Culture.......2005-03-21

This delightful book is the second volume of the Spanish Reader Series, which began with the Easy Spanish Reader. This book follows the same general principles--immediate immersion in the readings, no tedious grammar or vocabulary drills, no verb conjugations, just reading and understanding. So, I found myself advancing rapidly and enjoying myself immensely.

The readings are modernized and abridged versions of the classic literature of Spain--from 1140 (the Cid) to 1630 (El Burlador de Sevilla). Needless to say, they reflect a different world than ours, a world preoccupied with honor and gallantry, kings who are (supposed to be) wise, and nobles who dress well even if they have nothing to eat. And a view of women that is almost unbelievable from the America of 2005. You've read about the feudal age in Europe, but this book draws you into the soul of that long vanished era. I was surprised to find these works charming, interesting, and often quite humorous, in spite of their enormous distance from my own time and customs.

The author supplies marginal glosses for new vocabulary and extensive notes explaining the cultural background and possibly obscure allusions. After each section, there is a set of questions to test one's comprehension.

All in all, a delightful next step in my Spanish studies and one I can recommend highly. Reviewed by Louis N. Gruber.

A Perfect Aid To Learning Spanish.......2004-12-26

No matter how much you study Spanish in school or out of textbooks, you will never be able to write well in the language unless you read real Spanish literature. Although the stories in this book are watered down a bit, they're still quite entertaining, and definitely increase the reader's understanding of the Spanish language.

Great book for intermediate students of the Spanish language.......2002-01-11

I love this book.
This is perfect for someone with intermediate-level Spanish knowledge who wants to start reading in Spanish and greatly improve his/her vocabulary.

It has classic short stories and plays that are very entertaining. But the best thing about the book is that it offers definitions of obscure words on the same page (at the bottom, out of the way of the rest of the text), and all less obscure words are included in a dictionary in the back of the book. So, I can sit down and read this book without having to constantly refer to a Spanish dictionary; I can take this book along with me anywhere just like any other book in English.

The only downside is that the stories aren't the originals - they have been heavily edited down, but this means archaic language has been updated to be more modern.

I had fun reading this book, and was impressed with how far I could take my Spanish knowledge.

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Published here for the first time in a modern edition, Charlotte Smith's third novel is both rivetingly plotted and unique for its time in its powerful depiction of a gifted Romantic woman poet. The novel's heroine, Celestina, abandoned as a child in a French convent, becomes an independent, witty, and accomplished elegiac poet who, in a reversal of the usual pattern of the courtship novel, acts as a mentor to several men in her life. Written at the beginning of the French Revolution, Smith's novel depicts characters challenging both corrupt authority and conventional morality, exemplifying her hope that English society was on the verge of a great change for the better.

This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and primary source material relating to the novel's reception, its political contexts (writings by Reverend Richard Price, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Thomas Paine), and the author's life.

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The Celestina: A Fifteenth-Century Spanish Novel in Dialogue
Fernando de Rojas
Manufacturer: University of California Press
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ASIN: 0520250117

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The Celestina is considered by scholars to be the first European novel. Written in fifteenth-century Spain, this masterpiece is remarkable for its originality, depth, handling of dialogue, and drawing of character. The novel's focus is the character of Celestina, who dominates the scene. An old bawd brimming with salty wisdom derived from a vigorous and sinful life, she is one of the great creations of all literature and holds a secure place beside her two compatriots, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. This Spanish classic, the greatest of the forebears of Cervantes, was originally published anonymously, in 1499; later editions bear the name of Fernando de Rojas as author.

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La Celestina
Fernando de Rojas
Manufacturer: Juan de la Cuesta
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Celestina's Brood: Continuities of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin American Literature

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Celestina's Brood: Continuities of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin American Literature
Roberto González-Echevarría
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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 González Echevarría, 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. González Echevarría pursues this tradition and its meaning through the works of major figures such as Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, Alejo Carpentier, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, Nicolás Guillén, 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.

Art of Subversion in Inquisitional Spain (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures)

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Art of Subversion in Inquisitional Spain (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures)
Manuel De Costa Fontes
Manufacturer: Purdue University Press
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Rojas's Celestina (1499) is perhaps the second greatest work of Spanish literature, right after Don Quixote , and Delicado sought to surpass it with La Lozana andaluza (1530), an important precedent of the picaresque novel. Both works were written during the height of the Inquisition, when the only relatively safe way for New Christian writers of Jewish extraction like Rojas and Delicado to express what they felt about the discrimination they suffered and their doubts regarding the faith that had been forced upon their ancestors was in a covert, indirect manner. Some scholars have detected this subversive element in Rojas' and Delicado's corrosive view of the Christian societies in which they lived, but this book goes far beyond such impressionism, showing through abundant textual evidence that these two authors used superficial bawdiness and claims regarding the morality of their respective works as cover to encode attacks against the central dogmas of Christianity: the Annunciation, the Virgin Birth, the Incarnation, and the Holy Trinity. This book, which will generate controversy among Hispanists, many of whom have refused to examine these works for non-Catholic views, will be of interest not only to students and scholars of Spanish literature, but also to those involved in Jewish studies, Medieval European history, and cultural studies.

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La Celestina
Una joya de la literatura europea.
A forgotten and ignored classic
A forgotten and ignored classic
It captures the essance of good and evil in love.

La Celestina (Nuestros clasicos)
Fernando de Rojas
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ASIN: 844600433X

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Esta obra, considerada después del Quijote como la cima más alta de la literatura española, en la que se debaten en vital antagonismo la moralidad al uso y la exaltación de los valores esenciales de la vida.

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La Celestina.......2007-01-03

A classic Spanish literature story written in the Old Style Spanish by fernando De Rojas. Excellent reading and an excellent story with modern applications.

Una joya de la literatura europea........2001-11-25

Ante todo resulta incómodo ver valoradas con estrellitas (de 1 a 5) las obras maestras de la literatura universal.
La Celestina forma parte de esa veintena de obras maestras que forman lo más destacado de la literatura en cualquier idioma y de cualquier época. Sin lugar a dudas, la más fascinante, moderna, entretenida y asequible de su época. Una auténtica novela (dialogada) moderna.

Entre sus mejores momentos: la comida en casa de Celestina con los criados y prostitutas, el primer encuentro de Celestina y Melibea, Melibea esperando a Calixto en el jardín, y un final que te deja un nudo en la garganta. Ah!, y por supuesto la sabiduría popular de Celestina.

La comparación con Romeo and Juliet de Shakespeare no tiene sentido. Las dos obras son opuestas. Por otra parte no cabe duda de que La Celestina es muy superior (más compleja, densa, apasionada, humana, personajes más solidos y destacados...)

Cito a Riquer en su extraordinaria Historia de La Literatura Universal:

Cuando Calixto llega al jardín de Melibea por vez primera persiguiendo un halcón y queda herido por la belleza de la joven (escena de caza frecuente en las novelas cortesanas medievales, por ejemplo en el Cliges de Troyes), se levanta un vendaval que lo arrasará todo, lo bajo y lo elevado, el afecto más gratuito y la codicia más interesada. Y el lector tras tanta belleza, tantos primores, tanta poesía, tanto realismo y tras una tan bien conducida historia de unas almas en desasosiego, ve que la tragicomedia de Rojas, a pesar de su declarada intencion moralizadora, cae en el vacío, como Melibea al arrojarse de la torre, porque después de la muerte de los dos jóvenes Rojas sólo deja entrever un "infierno de enamorados"

A forgotten and ignored classic.......1999-07-12

Celestina is amusing, ironic, and while the prose and dialogue is long and descriptive, it is never boring- I really enjoyed this play. A note to the person who claims to be the author: Celestina was written in 1499, and it is widely assumed the author lived circa the same time. So, congratultions on your 500th birthday. :)

A forgotten and ignored classic.......1999-07-12

Celestina is amusing, ironic, and while the prose and dialogue is long and descriptive, it is never boring- I really enjoyed this play.

It captures the essance of good and evil in love........1998-10-27

Fernando De Rojas captures the truth of the love between man and woman in a time when novels were rarely written. This book plays out of a drama that inhabits the first concepts of the tragedy of love. It is what books like Romeo and Juliet are compared to.

LA Profecia Celestina: UN Viaje Que Se Convierte En Una Revelacion Inolvidable

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LA Profecia Celestina: UN Viaje Que Se Convierte En Una Revelacion Inolvidable
James Redfield
Manufacturer: Editorial Grijalbo (MX)
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