Shadow of Paradise / Edition 1

by Vicente Aleixandre, Hugh A. Harter, Claudio Rodriguez

Overview

Begun in 1939, barely four months after the close of the Spanish Civil War, these poems by the Nobel Laureate poet Vicente Aleixandre were written during a period of hardship and despair. In spite of his surroundings Aleixandre created the splendor of the shadow of a lost paradise that consisted of memory, nostalgia, yearning and illusion. This is the first full English version. The original Spanish text is included.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520082571
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	03/03/1993
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Vicente Aleixandre (1898-1984) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977. Hugh A. Harter is Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages at Ohio Wesleyan University.

Editorial Reviews

Shadow of Paradise ( Sombra del Paraiso ) is the first complete bilingual edition of this volume of poems by Nobel Prize-winning Spaniard Aleixandre (1898-1984). First published in 1944, it is an intensely visionary collection in which Aleixandre journeys ``toward a promised world half seen,'' charting the geography of a mystical Eden (based on the city of Malaga) perhaps not so beautifully realized since Coleridge's ``Kubla Khan.'' These imagined Iberian scenes appear ``transformed into light,/ transformed into flame that flashes in the air.'' Written at a time of both personal loss and historical tragedy, this volume effectively blends themes of innocence and sensuality with a longing for transcendence of pain. Frank Allen, Assoc. Dean, Continuing Education, Allentown Coll., Center Valley, Pa.

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