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The Island (eBook, ePUB) (1959)
~EN NWISBN: 9780241374290 bzw. 0241374294, vermutlich in Englisch, Penguin Books Ltd, neu.
Lieferung aus: Deutschland, Erscheint vor. 23.04.20, Versandkostenfrei innerhalb von Deutschland.
'This is an old and wicked island. An island of Phoenicians and merchants, of bloodsuckers and frauds'Expelled from her convent school for kicking the prioress, and abandoned by her father when her mother dies, rebellious teenager Matia is sent to live with her domineering grandmother on the scorching island of Mallorca. There she learns to scheme with her cousin Borja, and finds herself increasingly drawn to the strange outsider Manuel. But civil war has come to Spain, tearing communities apart, and it will teach Matia about the adult world in ways she could not foresee.This feverish 1959 coming-of-age novel by one of the greatest Spanish writers of the 20th century depicts Mallorca as an inferno, a lost Eden and a Never Land combined, where ancient hatreds and present-day passions collide.
'This is an old and wicked island. An island of Phoenicians and merchants, of bloodsuckers and frauds'Expelled from her convent school for kicking the prioress, and abandoned by her father when her mother dies, rebellious teenager Matia is sent to live with her domineering grandmother on the scorching island of Mallorca. There she learns to scheme with her cousin Borja, and finds herself increasingly drawn to the strange outsider Manuel. But civil war has come to Spain, tearing communities apart, and it will teach Matia about the adult world in ways she could not foresee.This feverish 1959 coming-of-age novel by one of the greatest Spanish writers of the 20th century depicts Mallorca as an inferno, a lost Eden and a Never Land combined, where ancient hatreds and present-day passions collide.
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Fiesta al noroeste
EN USISBN: 080328196X bzw. 9780803281967, in Englisch, University of Nebraska Press, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Lagernd.
contemporary,education and reference,fiction,foreign language fiction,humanities,literary,literature,literature and fiction,mystery thriller and suspense,poetry, Celebration in the Northwest (European Women Writers), Ana Maria Matute, author of Celebration in the Northwest, was 10 years old in 1936, the year the Spanish Civil War broke out. For three years she witnessed the strife and carnage that ripped her homeland apart, then came of age in a repressive society ruled by Franco. These terrible years fostered in her the pessimistic outlook evident in her fiction and provided the subject matter for her writing. In the Franco years, strict censorship forced writers into a kind of metaphorical fiction in which they discussed the war, the government, and the church without directly referring to them. The biblical story of Cain and Abel is a theme Matute returns to time and again, a symbol for the fratricide in Spain. This story is integral to her short novel, Celebration in the Northwest, first published in 1953. The novel's title refers to a small village cemetery where the funeral of a young child killed by a circus wagon is celebrated. The main characters are Pablo and Juan, two half-brothers whose love/hate relationship parallels that of biblical brothers Cain and Abel. Matute's dark vision of social injustice and church hypocrisy in postwar Spain is leavened by striking imagery and lyrical style. A winner of the prestigious Spanish Caf� Gij�n prize in 1952, Celebration in the Northwest makes for worthwhile reading more than 40 years later.
contemporary,education and reference,fiction,foreign language fiction,humanities,literary,literature,literature and fiction,mystery thriller and suspense,poetry, Celebration in the Northwest (European Women Writers), Ana Maria Matute, author of Celebration in the Northwest, was 10 years old in 1936, the year the Spanish Civil War broke out. For three years she witnessed the strife and carnage that ripped her homeland apart, then came of age in a repressive society ruled by Franco. These terrible years fostered in her the pessimistic outlook evident in her fiction and provided the subject matter for her writing. In the Franco years, strict censorship forced writers into a kind of metaphorical fiction in which they discussed the war, the government, and the church without directly referring to them. The biblical story of Cain and Abel is a theme Matute returns to time and again, a symbol for the fratricide in Spain. This story is integral to her short novel, Celebration in the Northwest, first published in 1953. The novel's title refers to a small village cemetery where the funeral of a young child killed by a circus wagon is celebrated. The main characters are Pablo and Juan, two half-brothers whose love/hate relationship parallels that of biblical brothers Cain and Abel. Matute's dark vision of social injustice and church hypocrisy in postwar Spain is leavened by striking imagery and lyrical style. A winner of the prestigious Spanish Caf� Gij�n prize in 1952, Celebration in the Northwest makes for worthwhile reading more than 40 years later.
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Celebration in the Northwest
~EN USISBN: 9780803281967 bzw. 080328196X, vermutlich in Englisch, University of Nebraska Press, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, In Stock, plus shipping.
A tragic tale of hatred between two half-brothers, Celebration in the Northwest is a gripping novel by Ana Maria Matute, one of twentieth-century Spain's most important writers. At the center of the novel are confessions that the protagonist, Juan Medinao, makes to a local priest in the fictional Castilian town of Artamila. Those confessions reveal the volatile mixture of attraction and repulsion between Juan and his half-brother, Pablo. In describing the troubled bond between these characters, Matute creates a harrowing, modern enactment of the Biblical tale of Cain and Abel. Celebration in the Northwest is remarkable for its evocative prose, its riveting plot, and its portrayal of a character overcome by bitterness, envy, rage, and alienation.
A tragic tale of hatred between two half-brothers, Celebration in the Northwest is a gripping novel by Ana Maria Matute, one of twentieth-century Spain's most important writers. At the center of the novel are confessions that the protagonist, Juan Medinao, makes to a local priest in the fictional Castilian town of Artamila. Those confessions reveal the volatile mixture of attraction and repulsion between Juan and his half-brother, Pablo. In describing the troubled bond between these characters, Matute creates a harrowing, modern enactment of the Biblical tale of Cain and Abel. Celebration in the Northwest is remarkable for its evocative prose, its riveting plot, and its portrayal of a character overcome by bitterness, envy, rage, and alienation.
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Celebration in the Northwest
EN PB USISBN: 9780803281967 bzw. 080328196X, in Englisch, Longleaf Services, Taschenbuch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Lagernd.
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9780803281967,080328196x,celebration,northwest,matute, Excellent Marketplace listings for "Celebration in the Northwest" by Matute starting as low as $1.99! Paperback, Shipping to USA only!
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