The Song of the Cid: A Dual Language Edition with Parallel Text - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Anonymous, Burton Raffel, Maria Rosa MenocalAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2009-03-31Pages:288
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780143105657ISBN-10:143105655UPC:9780143105657Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, Medieval, EpicBook Topic:Spanish & PortugueseSize:7.70 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5Product ID:SCESFE6E4D
From a legendary translator: a magnificent new rendering of Spain's national epic Venture into the heart of Islamic Spain in this vibrant, rollicking new translation of The Song of the Cid, the only surviving epic from medieval Spain. Banished from the court of King Alfonso, the noble warrior Rodrigo Diaz, know as the Cid, sets out from Castile to restore his name. In a series of battles, he earns wealth and honor for his men and his king, as well as fame and admiration for himself. But it is in rescuing his daughters from their ill-suited marriages that the Cid faces the ultimate challenge to the medieval heroic ideal. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780143105657ISBN-10:143105655UPC:9780143105657Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, Medieval, EpicBook Topic:Spanish & PortugueseSize:7.70 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5Product ID:SCESFE6E4D
Burton Raffel (1928-2015, translator) was a Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities Emeritus and Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He translated many works, including Cervantes's Don Quixote, Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel (winner of the 1991 French-American Foundation Translation Prize), Chr?tien de Troyes's Arthurian Romances, Balzac's P?re Goriot, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. His translation of Beowulf has sold more than a million copies. Mar?a Rosa Menocal (1953-2012, introducer) was the Sterling Professor the Humanities and Director of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale. She wrote The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain and co-authored The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture.
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