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Antonio Machado's Cartas De Amor a Pilar De Valderrama / Love Letters to Pilar De Valderrama: A Facing Page Translation from Spanish to English Bilingual Edition
Author(s): Antonio Machado (Author), Anna-Marie Aldaz (Translator)
- Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 1 Nov. 2008
- Edition: Bilingual
- Language: English, Spanish
- Print length: 280 pages
- ISBN-10: 0773448780
- ISBN-13: 9780773448780
Book Description
This annotated bilingual edition of Antonio Machado’s letters to Pilar de Valderrama, which includes an informative introduction, offers a unique insight into the poet’s personal and artistic life. The letters – intimate, vibrant, and as ungarded as journal entries – range over a wide variety of topics and sparkle with Machado’s personality. They reveal his profound love for the woman he worshipped as a goddes and to whom he confided his innermost thoughts. The letters permit a glimpse into Machado’s creative process, aethetic principles, and political views. During the nearly ten-year span of their correspondence, Machado shared with Valderrama his opinions about literary gatherings, contemporary authors, and the unrest of pre-Civil War days. While lamenting that his work as a high school French teacher limited the time he could devote to his creative endeavors, he consistently consulted Valderrama about them, even transcribing lengthy excerpts from his plays in progress. This book will appeal not only to the many readers who enjoy Machado’s poetry but to everyone who is interested in Spain’s early twentieth-century cultural and literary history.
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About the Author
The translator, Anna-Marie Aldaz, Northern Arizona University professor emerita of Spanish, received her Ph.D. from the University of Oregon. Her previous publications include a critical study of Peruvian author Manuel Scorza and translations of the last four novels.
