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Dona Luz

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Description for Dona Luz Hardback. Translator(s): Fedorchek, Robert M. Num Pages: 177 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 16. Weight in Grams: 458.
Juan Valera (1824-1905), one of nineteenth-century Spain's most respected authors, wrote novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and literary criticism. The unifying thread of his work is "art for art's sake," that is, beauty as the end and purpose of inspiration and creativity. Two examples in long works of this aesthetic credo are his novels Pepita Jiménez (1874) and the novel translated here, Doña Luz (1879); the former is about a seminarian who falls in love with a young widow, and the latter, is about another young woman, one who seeks to escape the stigma of illegitimacy and lead a quiet ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
177
Condition
New
Number of Pages
177
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611481778
SKU
V9781611481778
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About
Robert M. Fedorchek is a Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at Fairfield University. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Connecticut and studied at Yale and the Universities of Madrid and Lisbon. He is the translator of ten other Bucknell University Press publications. Beth Wietelmann Bauer is Senior Lecturer and Chair of the Department of Hispanic Studies ... Read more

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