Luis Cernuda: One River, One Love

by Philip G. Johnston

Book Overview

Philip G Johnston's new translation of Un rio, un amor (One River, One Love) by Luis Cernuda (1902-1963) is faithful to the author's quasi-Surrealist intentions. Written in France and Spain in 1928-1929, this collection reflects the influences, conflicts and impulses that governed the poet's life then. It speaks of the alienation of a marginalised, disaffected individual in a Spain which he described as "decrepit and decomposing", of a shy homosexual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1910572225
• ISBN13: 9781910572221
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"