by Fernando de Rojas · Espasa-Calpe SA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423901951
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«La Celestina» is the tragicomedy by Fernando de Rojas, published by Espasa-Calpe in paperback (360 pages, in Spanish).
«La Celestina» narrates the love affair between Calixto and Melibea, two young nobles, and the intervention of Celestina, a go-between who arranges their meetings for a reward. The tragicomedy, written in dialogue form, portrays the passion, greed, deceit and hypocrisy of a society torn between desire and morality.
Twenty-third edition of the Austral Collection (number 195), published in 1991, edited and introduced by Pedro M. Piñero Ramírez.
For students of Spanish literature and readers seeking a fifteenth-century classic.
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".
