Author : Ernesto Cardenal
Release : 1995-02-22
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 030/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis The Doubtful Strait / El Estrecho Dudoso by : Ernesto Cardenal
Download or read book The Doubtful Strait / El Estrecho Dudoso written by Ernesto Cardenal. This book was released on 1995-02-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... very well translated... Cardenal merits praise for presenting, on such an ambitious scale, a passionate alternative history of the Spanish encounter with Central America." --Booklist "Combining hsitory with poetry, Cardenal exposes the violence, treachery, injustice, and exploitation that are so much a part of Central America and Mexico's] past and present." --World Literature Today "Explore this dense, beautiful poem and you will be rewarded with riches that 'delight and hurt not'." --Nicaragua Update "... a remarkable text.... El estrecho dudoso is a masterful and compelling poetic account of early colonial Central America, and the translation is likewise masterful." --Colonial Latin American Historical Review In this book-length poem, Nicaraguan priest and revolutionary Ernesto Cardenal tells the story of the Spanish conquest of Central America from the "discovery" of the American continent to recent historical events. A remarkable achievement and an engrossing narrative, the poem is published here in both Spanish and English.