by José Francisco de Isla · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432069789
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Immerse yourself in 18th-century Spain with 'Historia del famoso predicador fray Gerundio de Campazas, alias Zotes', a masterpiece by José Francisco de Isla. This edition from Planeta, with an introduction and notes by Joaquín Álvarez Barrientos, offers a biting critique of the baroque language of the time. Through the adventures and misadventures of Fray Gerundio, Isla invites us to reflect on the rhetoric and society of his time.
José Francisco de Isla was a Spanish Jesuit, celebrated as a preacher and a humorist and satirist in the style of Miguel de Cervantes.
