Libros de James O. Crosby (2 libros)

Esta edición recoge un exhaustivo examen cronológico de los poemas, lo que permite al lector captar el desarrollo progresivo de su arte, junto con una clasificación por géneros, extraída del propio deseo del autor en sus últimos años. Josef Antonio González de Salas, amigo del poeta, ofrece la pauta de selección para esta antología, que abarca una amplia muestra de la producción quevedesca.

Annotation Between 1605 and 1621, Quevedo wrote a sequence of five "Dreams" or "Visions" "(Suenos y discursos), in each of which he hilariously envisions Spanish society as populated by people rightfully condemned to Hell. These astonishingly witty and irreverent satires of contemporary Spanish culture, morality, prejudice and religious fanaticism, were composed in a style as allusive, elliptical and equivocal as to successfully entertain both those who barely understood their full range and import, and others who celebrated the poet's rebellious insinuations. Censorship prohibited the...