by Fernando de Rojas · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420676159
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«La Celestina» (Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea), by Fernando de Rojas, is the tragicomedy published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (336 pages).
Calisto, driven by his passion for Melibea, turns to Celestina, a go-between and sorceress, to win her love. The plot interweaves the courtly love of the gentry with the marginal world of the servants, and that passion drags all the characters towards a tragic end. A work straddling the novel and the theatre, it is a classic of Spanish literature.
Edition by Dorothy S. Severin, with a study by Stephen Gilman; follows the Valencia 1514 text and includes suppressed fragments of the sixteen-act Comedia and later variants.
For students of Spanish literature and readers wanting a classic with notes and an introductory study.
Fernando de Rojas was a Spanish author and dramatist, known for his only surviving work, La Celestina, first published in 1499. It is variously considered "the last work of the Spanish Middle Ages or the first work of the Spanish Renaissance".
