by Santa Teresa de Jesús · Plaza & Janés Editores, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401418624
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«Libro de la vida» is the spiritual autobiography of Saint Teresa of Ávila, published by Plaza & Janés Editores in paperback (416 pages, in Spanish).
The work combines autobiographical narrative with spiritual doctrine: it begins with the author's childhood and youth in Ávila, moves through her mystical experiences and a treatise on prayer, and ends with the founding of the convent of San José de Ávila. Its simple, sincere prose, free of artifice, explains why it is both a religious and literary classic of the Spanish Golden Age.
The work dates from 1565 and its original title was «La vida de Teresa de Jesús»; this 1998 edition, in the Ave Fénix Clásicos collection, has a prologue by Francisco Rico.
Reference work for those interested in Christian spirituality, mysticism and Spanish classics.
