The Solitudes

Resumen del libro

Edith Grossman has surpassed even her magnificent version of Don Quixote by the far more difficult translation of Góngora's Solitudes. Harold Bloom


A towering figure of the Renaissance, Luis de Góngora 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-inverse 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, our most celebrated translator from Spanish, captures the breathtaking beauty of a work that represents one of the high points of poetic achievement in any language.

Contributors

LUIS DE GÓNGORA (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 Nobel Prize winners Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. She is the recipient of the inaugural Queen Sofia Spanish Institute Translation Prize, the 2006 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.

Quotes

Edith Grossman has splendidly brought The Solitudes to life in English. Edward Hirsch

Biografía del autor

Luis de Góngora y Argote (Córdoba, 11 de julio de 1561-ibídem, 23 de mayo de 1627) fue un poeta y dramaturgo español del Siglo de Oro, máximo exponente de la corriente literaria conocida, más tarde y con simplificación perpetuada a lo largo de siglos, como culteranismo o gongorismo, cuya obra será imitada tanto en su siglo como en los siglos posteriores en Europa y América. Como si se tratara de un clásico latino, sus obras fueron objeto de exégesis ya en su misma época.<br><br>