by Fernando de Rojas · Circulo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422626350
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«La Celestina» is the tragicomedy by Fernando de Rojas, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback, with 375 pages and in Spanish.
Calisto, a young nobleman, falls in love with Melibea and, desperate to win her, hires the services of Celestina, an old procuress and sorceress. Straddling narrative and theatre, the work portrays a conflicted society and the passions that drag its characters towards destruction and death.
It belongs to the Biblioteca de Plata de los Clásicos Españoles, a collection selected and annotated by Francisco Rico.
It often appears as required reading in schools, and is especially useful for students of Spanish literature.
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".
