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Luis Cernuda: One River, One Love: Translated with an introduction and notes by Philip G. Johnston (Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics)
Philip G. Johnston
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Philip G Johnston's new translation of Un rio, un amor (One River, One Love) by Luis Cernuda (1902-1963) is faithful to the author's quasi-Surrealist intentions. Written in France and Spain in 1928-1929, this collection reflects the influences, conflicts and impulses that governed the poet's life then. It speaks of the alienation of a marginalised, disaffected individual in a Spain which he described as "decrepit and decomposing", of a shy homosexual gradually and painfully coming to terms with his orientation in a rigid, hostile society, of a passion for American popular culture (Jazz, Blues and cinema), filtered through a Hispanic sensitivity, ... Read more
Philip G Johnston's new translation of Un rio, un amor (One River, One Love) by Luis Cernuda (1902-1963) is faithful to the author's quasi-Surrealist intentions. Written in France and Spain in 1928-1929, this collection reflects the influences, conflicts and impulses that governed the poet's life then. It speaks of the alienation of a marginalised, disaffected individual in a Spain which he described as "decrepit and decomposing", of a shy homosexual gradually and painfully coming to terms with his orientation in a rigid, hostile society, of a passion for American popular culture (Jazz, Blues and cinema), filtered through a Hispanic sensitivity, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Aris & Phillips
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910572221
SKU
V9781910572221
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About Philip G. Johnston
Philip G. Johnston is Senior Lecturer in Spanish in the School of Languages and Literatures at University College Dublin. He is the author of an edition of In the Burning Darkness by Antonio Buero-Vallejo in this series, and also a major study of the poet Antonio Machado.
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