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Exemplary Stories

1972 Fiction
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Release : 1972
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Book Synopsis Exemplary Stories by : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Download or read book Exemplary Stories written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. This book was released on 1972. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even more popular in their day than Don Quixote, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories (1613) surprise, challenge and delight. Ranging from the picaresque to the satirical, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories defy the conventions of heroic chivalric literature through a combination of comic irony, moral ambiguity, realism, and sheer mirth. With acute narrative skill and deft characterisation, drawing on colloquial language and farce, Cervantes creates a tension between the everyday and the literary, the plausible and the improbable. While encouraging us to reach our own moral conclusions, he also persuades us to accept the coincidental and the incredible: two boys indulge their life of crime at a time of public prayer; a young nobleman undergoes a change of identity at the behest of not a princess but a mere gipsy girl, and, most fantastically, talking dogs philosophize in a ward full of syphilitics. By placing the extraordinary within the contexts of the ordinary, the Exemplary Stories chart new novelistic territory and demonstrate Cervantes at his most imaginative and innovative. This new translation captures the full vigour of Cervantes's wit and makes available two rarely printed tales, `The Illustrious Kitchen Maid' and `The Power of Blood'.

Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion

2010-07-15 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2010-07-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion by : María de Zayas y Sotomayor

Download or read book Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion written by María de Zayas y Sotomayor. This book was released on 2010-07-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of María de Zayas’s popularity in the mid-eighteenth century, the number of editions in print of her work was exceeded only by the novels of Cervantes. But by the end of the nineteenth century, Zayas had been excluded from the Spanish literary canon because of her gender and the sociopolitical changes that swept Spain and Europe. Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion gathers a representative sample of seven stories, which features Zayas’s signature topics—gender equality and domestic violence—written in an impassioned tone overlaid with conservative Counter-Reformation ideology. This edition updates the scholarship since the most recent English translations, with a new introduction to Zayas’s entire body of stories, and restores Zayas’s author’s note and prologue, omitted from previous English-language editions. Tracing her slow but steady progress from notions of ideal love to love’s treachery, Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion will restore Zayas to her rightful place in modern letters.

Three Exemplary Novels

1987 Fiction
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Release : 1987
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Three Exemplary Novels by : Miguel de Unamuno

Download or read book Three Exemplary Novels written by Miguel de Unamuno. This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'No Spanish voice was heard during the fifty years of his active intellectual life which could compare with his in the strength of his passion nor in the profound seriousness with which he challenged every complacency...The central idea in all his fiction is the struggle to create faith from doubt and ethics from inner strife.'

Three Exemplary Novels/Tres Novelas Ejemplares

2006-10-27 Foreign Language Study
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Release : 2006-10-27
Genre : Foreign Language Study
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Book Synopsis Three Exemplary Novels/Tres Novelas Ejemplares by : Miguel de Cervantes

Download or read book Three Exemplary Novels/Tres Novelas Ejemplares written by Miguel de Cervantes. This book was released on 2006-10-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of Don Quixote, the most famous figure in Spanish literature, comes this trio of novellas: "La gitanilla," a gypsy romance; "El coloquio de los perros," a dialogue between two dogs; and "Rinconete y Cortadillo," a day in the underworld of 18th-century Seville. Introduction, new English translation, and notes.

Exemplary Novels

2016-01-01 Fiction
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Release : 2016-01-01
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Book Synopsis Exemplary Novels by : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Download or read book Exemplary Novels written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. This book was released on 2016-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edith Grossman, celebrated for her brilliant translation of Don Quixote, offers a dazzling new version of another Cervantes classic, on the 400th anniversary of his death The twelve novellas gathered together in Exemplary Novels reveal the extraordinary breadth of Cervantes's imagination: his nearly limitless ability to create characters, invent plots, and entertain readers across continents and centuries. Cervantes published his book in Spain in 1613. The assemblage of unique characters (eloquent witches, talking dogs, Gypsy orphans, and an array of others), the twisting plots, and the moral heart at the core of each tale proved irresistible to his enthusiastic audience. Then as now, Cervantes's readers find pure entertainment in his pages, but also a subtle artistry that invites deeper investigation. Edith Grossman's eagerly awaited translation brings this timeless classic to English-language readers in an edition that will delight those already familiar with Cervantes's work as well as those about to be enchanted for the first time. Roberto González Echevarría's illuminating introduction to the volume serves as both an appreciation of Cervantes's brilliance and a critical guide to the novellas and their significance.

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