by Fernando de Rojas · Edimat Libros · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497643566
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«La Celestina» is the tragicomedy by Fernando de Rojas published by Edimat Libros in paperback, with 272 pages, in Spanish.
The work narrates the ill-fated romance between Calixto and Melibea and the cunning schemes of the astute Celestina to bring them together. Written in dialogue, it presents love as a sweeping passion within a tragic structure. It is considered one of the peaks of Spanish literature and a precursor to the modern European novel.
Edition number 29 of the «Clásicos de la literatura universal» collection, with complete text and introduction. The work was originally published as «Comedia o Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea».
For readers approaching Spanish classics and for students needing a study edition with an introduction.
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".
