Antonio Machado's Cartas Love letters to Pilar de Valderrama; a facing page translation from Spanish into English.

9780773448780

Antonio Machado's Cartas Love letters to Pilar de Valderrama; a facing page translation from Spanish into English.

Machado, Antonio.

Edwin Mellen Pr.

2008

265 pages

$109.95

Hardcover

PQ6623

After the sudden death of his young wife in 1912, Antonio Machado felt he had failed. He wrote that the only way to be a true friend, lover, and man was to hear one's name on the lips of a woman. Independent scholar Aldaz explains that Machado may have been convinced of his failure for some time but was eventually reassured by an intense, late-flowering and rather unlikely romantic relationship with Pilar de Valderrama, who was 14 years his junior. Aldaz offers an interesting introduction and set of notes along with an elegant translation, explaining Machado's perceptions about his role in the relationship and the character of a true lover. The result is an intimate view of a poet in love, twice, and in very different ways.

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