Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
244
Language
English
Published
Sep 23, 1981
Publisher
Socieded Generl Espanola De
ISBN-10
8471432277
ISBN-13
9788471432278
Description
The Crackling Sun includes 100 poems translated from poems in all 13 books of the 1977 Spanish Nobel Prize winner Vicente Aleixandre whom the translator knew personally and consulted on several occasions. It also has a lengthy introduction of some 75 pages explaining the evolution of his several styles, particularly the surrealist mode. The book is presently in 139 libraries in the U.S.