
The Solitudes
A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text
By: Luis de Gongora
Paperback | 4 July 2012 | Edition Number 1
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A towering figure of the Renaissance, Luis de Gongora pioneered poetic forms so radically different from the dominant aesthetic of his time that he was derided as "the Prince of Darkness." The Solitudes, his magnum opus, is an intoxicatingly lush novel-in-verse that follows the wanderings of a shipwrecked man who has been spurned by his lover. Wrenched from civilization and its attendant madness, the desolate hero is transported into a natural world that is at once menacing and sublime. In this stunning edition Edith Grossman captures the breathtaking beauty of a work that represents one of the high points of poetic achievement in any language.
Luis de Gongora (1561-1627) is among the most prominent figures of the Spanish Golden Age.
Edith Grossman is the acclaimed translator of Don Quixote, as well as books by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Carlos Fuentes. She is the recipient of the inaugural Queen Sofia Spanish Institute Translation Prize, the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation, and a Guggenheim fellowship.
Alberto Manguel is the bestselling author of dozens of books, including A History of Reading and The Dictionary of Imaginary Places.
Industry Reviews
"Edith Grossman has surpassed even her magnificent version of Don Quixote by the far more difficult translation of G�ngora's Solitudes. Few European poems are as sublime as The Solitudes, and Grossman illuminates this truth." --Harold Bloom
"This is true alchemy: to change the gold of one language into the gold of another. Such things are miracles: the baroque architecture of G�ngora's poem has been given a shining equivalent in twenty-first-century English through the art of Edith Grossman." --Cees Nooteboom
"Edith Grossman has accomplished the formidable literary labor of translating into elegant, contemporary English G�ngora's Soledades, the highest poetic achievement in the Spanish language." --Roberto Gonz�lez Echevarr�a, Yale University; author of Celestina's Brood
"In Latin America, G�ngora influenced much of the writing of Sor Juana In�s de la Cruz, of Borges, and (in lesser measure) of Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez. Above all, he is the 'origin and source' of the great Cuban literature, that of Alejo Carpentier, Severo Sarduy, and Lezama Lima. In Spain he became the precursor of the best poets of the early twentieth century, from Garc�a Lorca to Luis Cernuda. Perhaps, in the brilliant translation of Edith Grossman, he might have a similar effect." --Alberto Manguel, from the Introduction
"The Solitudes is the most refreshing poem of seventeenth-century European literature, and G�ngora is the seventeenth century's Picasso, a rebel fountain that makes new water out of old. Edith Grossman's translation is the river that carries this new water across centuries and continents, and that allows us to drink of G�ngora's genius." --Joaqu�n Roses, University of C�rdoba
"Luis de G�ngora was one of the great surprises of the Spanish Renaissance. He proved to be a poet of world stature, a figure comparable, say, to John Donne and George Herbert in English and a wildly imaginative and deeply rewarding poet of the senses. Edith Grossman has splendidly brought his Solitudes to life in English." --Edward Hirsch
ISBN: 9780143106722
ISBN-10: 0143106724
Series: Penguin Classics
Published: 4th July 2012
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 176
Audience: General Adult
For Ages: 18+ years old
For Grades: 12+
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 19.7 x 13.1 x 1.2
Weight (kg): 0.15
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