Prometheus; The Fall of the House of Limón; Sunday Sunlight
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Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Prometheus; The Fall of the House of Limón; Sunday Sunlight: Poetic Novels of Spanish Life Years ago Coventry Patmore called attention to that "complete synthesis of gravity of matter and gaiety of manner" which is the crowning glory of the Spanish mystics. But this is not the only miracle of art in Spanish literature; with equal force he might have dwelled upon another almost paradoxical synthesis: the fusion of gravity of manner with gran tacaño of Quevedo. Spain is a land of the picaresque tales from La Celestina to El gran tacano of Quevedo. Spain is a land of contrasts, of violent juxtapositions. Its greatest literary masterpiece, Don Quixote, is the revelation of the eternal conflict between the inspired dreamer and Philistine society. In literature, as in the other arts, the emphasis of gravity is the result of temperament. And there are but two attitudes: the emotional and the intellectual About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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