Requiem por un campesino espanol (Coleccibon Destinolibro)

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The best literary account of the effect of the Civil War.......1999-02-26

Ramon Sender fuses symbolism and realism in this account of the effect of the Spanish Civil War on a small Aragonese population. He reclaims the image of Christ crucified for the Republican side. This image had been used by Nationalists to symbolise the fate of Spain. It is here won forever for Republican historians as a metaphor for the suffering of ordinary Spanish people. Easy to read in the beautiful Spanish original but excellently translated. You now have good reason to read this book twice!

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Requiem Por Un Campesino Español
Ramon J. Sender
Manufacturer: Stockcero
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 987113648X

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Réquiem por un campesino español, a short, elegant and moving account of the tragic effects of the Spanish Civil War on a small Aragonese population, is often called Ramón J. Sender's greatest masterpiece. It was the author's own favorite book and -in his own words- of all his novels it is "the simplest, and the most universal". This characteristic of "universality" flows through all Sender's writings, while he manages to still be the most Spanish of the generation that began to write just before the onset of the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39. As a journalist who allied himself with the Republican side in the Spanish civil war, Sender (1901-82) was a privileged eyewitness to Spain's struggle, suffering and defeat, a situation he continued to write about after he left Spain in 1938. While his texts are considered essential source material by historians of this era, at the same time, the anguish and pain, losses and victories of the profoundly Spanish characters are portrayed as universal emotions and experiences that continue to move readers of all nationalities. Within Hispanic literature, Réquiem por un campesino español (first published in Mexico in 1953, banned in Spain for many years) is considered to stand on a par with Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea within North American literature. Both are brief and profound, and recount intense, dramatic stories that initially seem uncomplicated. They are both important novels that in their brevity and apparent simplicity continue to resonate with essential truths. Three qualities of the novel are emphasized in the essay by Prof. Borja Rodríguez Gutiérrez that introduces this edition: the story's meticulous, mathematical structure devised by a self aware writer; its use of reiteration of certain key elements; and the carefully structured allegory with which it transmits its denunciation of the injustice and treachery that underlie history. The careful lexicographic notes included will help the modern reader grasp the plot in all its dramatic, Spanish, intensity.

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Excellent.......2007-01-28

I studied and became familiar with the facts and dates asociated with the Spanish Civil War, but I didn't understand it until I read this book. Sender's story is masterful, he carries you into the life of a common Spaniard from birth to tragic death. As I read I became aquinted with the Catholicism that is so Spanish and that faith's integral role in their society. As the story progressed I empathized with the political injustice and circumstances of the times, until ultimately I was heartbroken over the injustice and tragedy with which the story ended.
Profound, moving, enriching, truly Spanish.

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Requiem Por Un Campesino Español
Ramon J. Sender
Manufacturer: Destino
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Recoge un dramatico episoldio de la guerra civil en un pueblecito Aragones.

Sender: "Requiem Por Un Campesino Espanol" (Critical Guides to Spanish Texts)

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Sender: "Requiem Por Un Campesino Espanol" (Critical Guides to Spanish Texts)
Stephen Hart
Manufacturer: Grant & Cutler Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Réquiem por un campesino español: Easy Reader

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Réquiem por un campesino español: Easy Reader
Ramón J. Sender
Manufacturer: Emc Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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A Cypress book
RamoÌn JoseÌ Sender
Manufacturer: Las ameÌricas
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Requiem Por Campesino Espanol
Ramon J. Sender
Manufacturer: Accent Educational Publishers Ltd
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 185693117X

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Requiem por un campesino espanol
R. Sender
Manufacturer: Editorial Proyeccion
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O5HJ6Y

Structure and Symbol in the Film Requiem por un campesino espanol.(Critical Essay): An article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg)

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Structure and Symbol in the Film Requiem por un campesino espanol.(Critical Essay): An article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg)
Huw Aled Lewis
Manufacturer: University of Manitoba, Mosaic
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Mosaic (Winnipeg), published by University of Manitoba, Mosaic on September 1, 2000. The length of the article is 5791 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Structure and Symbol in the Film Requiem por un campesino espanol.(Critical Essay)
Author: Huw Aled Lewis
Publication: Mosaic (Winnipeg) (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2000
Publisher: University of Manitoba, Mosaic
Volume: 33 Issue: 3 Page: 6

Article Type: Critical Essay

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Guia de lectura: Requiem por un campesino espanol de Ramon J. Sender

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Guia de lectura: Requiem por un campesino espanol de Ramon J. Sender
Gemma Mana
Manufacturer: Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses, Diputacion de Huesca
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Atlantic Coast beaches offer a variety of souvenirs and curiosities to those beachgoers that care to look. Shells have long been treasured finds, and their descriptions are well documented in a variety of books and guides. But what about the other things found on the beach? These are the things that drift in the ocean and are carried in with the winds: sea-beans, spirula, mermaid's purses, and other tropical treasures. This book references them in a convenient form for the beachcomber, while keeping the oceanographer and botanist in mind. Interesting descriptions of each sea-bean species, or other drift treasure, and 175 color photographs make this book a valuable collector's guide. Perry and Dennis provide the results of a 30-year study on sea-bean flotation tests. No other book combines personal experience, use of color photography identifications, and the scientific field of botany into a complete, friendly user's guide for identifying sea-beans and other drift from the sea.

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Sea Bean Bible.......2007-07-27

I love this book. It is a fantastic resource, complete with color photos. An absolutely essential book to have if you live by the sea. You will be able to identify the cool beans you find along the shore with this book. I have learned a tremendous amount about drift seeds from reading this book. Highly recommended. Enjoy & Happy Beaning! :)

Excellent Guide Book.......2007-05-12

Excellent guide book with photos and text. Helped me identify the beans that I have collected on the beaches of Key Biscayne.

Each shell is provided with a lengthy introduction.......2004-01-14

Co-produced by Edward L. Perry and John V. Dennis, Sea-Beans From The Tropics is an impressive collector's guide to the tropical drift commonly found on the shores of the Atlantic ocean. Full-color photographs illustrate each entry ranging from bald cypress, to white inkberry. Each shell is provided with a lengthy introduction covering such topics as the nature of ocean currents and how to grow and polish sea beans rounds out this informative, fascinating, detailed, "user friendly" guide.

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Irritating
Interesting idea that gets lost in sex and politics
Brilliant. Just brilliant.
I loved this book
Often Interesting, Sometimes Challenging, Rarely Engaging

Evolution's Shore
Ian Mcdonald
Manufacturer: Spectra
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0553374354
Release Date: 1995-11-01

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It began in the year 2002 with strange activities on one of Saturn's moons. Then came the meteor strike on Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, followed by an alien infestation by a strange vegetative life-form known locally as the Chaga. For Gaby McAslan and her SkyNet news team, this is the story of a lifetime - and a golden chance at fame. As the Dark Continent becomes a frenzied backdrop of apocalyptic anticipation, Gaby fights to be the first to get to the truth behind the Chaga, only to come up against a wall of official secrecy. Suddenly rumors are spreading as fast as the Chaga: of people disappearing into the alien growth or being herded by U.N. troops into restricted "research" camps. Soon it becomes clear that the real story is bigger than Gaby could every imagine - a story that must be told even if it means betraying the man she loves. Is the Chaga an invasion or a gift? Does it mean destruction or evolution? Does it spell the final chapter for humanity ... or just the beginning of the most amazing story of all?

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Irritating.......2004-02-04

I bought this through one of the Amazon lists, because I found its title in distinguished company. Result: one of the worst books I have ever read. What turned me off since the very beginning was the style: contrived, artificial, kitsch, not to mention that the main character -- a pathetic monument to female ambition -- wasn't interesting at all.

Interesting idea that gets lost in sex and politics.......2003-02-23

I bought this novel because I had read a novella McDonald had written about the Chaga, and found the concept interesting. Reading this novel, the same interesting parts about the Chaga, and it's origins, still engaged me. However, I have some very big problems with the story:

1. McDonald's main Character, a woman, is a promiscuous as Madonna, but unlike her does not have the ability to make 100's of Millions for those who tolerate her. In short, she's a slut, and maybe I'm old-fashioned, but as much as she sleeps around, I can't imagine the other characters in the book seeing through to her apparent heart of gold. In my experience, women like this are not taken seriously, which McDonald's plot demands they do. Times have not changed that much.

2. The amount and lurid descriptions of her sexual encounters in the book could have been left out, or left to the imagination, without any loss to the narrative. One gets the impression that McDonald was using it as filler to advance the plot. Pretty lame.

3. The political message comes through loud and clear: Africans - hearts of gold, Americans and non-British Europeans (with one exception - the idealistic Doctor/romantic entanglement) evil, racist scoundrels. I lived in Africa for several years...you can't put this romantic nonsense by me. I actually closed the book at one point and stopped reading for a few days because of some of this garbage. The slams against the U.S. are pretty blatant. Sorry Ian, we won.

4. The book is less hard science fiction than a novel about dramatic social change with the Sci-Fi thrown in to keep you interested. There was actually less concrete info about the Chaga in this whole novel than in the novella I read (which also featured evil Americans, I have to admit). In fact, the whole book reminds me of something by Samuel R. Delaney, and I HATE Delaney books.

For all that, I read it through, and enjoyed some parts, but the whole left me unsatisfied. It won't be a favorite, and will go to the donation box when I get a chance.

Brilliant. Just brilliant........2003-01-30

I would strongly agree with the reviewer above who said that science fiction often falls into anthropocentrist thinking, and that Ian McDonald is one of the few who can get past that to see the truly ALIEN. It's a rare skill.

What most of the reviews leave out is that this book combines an adventure story, a career story, a (great) love story, and has a political and geographical backdrop so vivid it stops the reader dead in his tracks sometimes. Few popular novels deal with Africa at all. Even fewer science fiction novels do. This would be one of the most ambitious undertakings--and McDonald pulls it off. I didn't think the ending was predictable, or that the political stances were cliche. In fact, the ending is rather unresolved. McDonald manages to convey a sense of hope rather than a neatly tied up bundle of plot strings. But it still satisfies.

There are few authors who can make you think of the universe as a place that is young and new and full of the unknown, full of possibilities. McDonald did it with one of his earliest (the earliest?) novels, "Desolation Road" and he does it again here in a less fantastic (yet still fantastic) setting.

Not everyone gets tingles down their spine reading this book. But enough do (and I did) that I'd wholeheartedly recommend it.

I loved this book.......2002-02-04

This is the second book I've read by Ian McDonald. The first was Terminal Cafe, and like that book, this one is set in and about a transformation of humanity. That is, the characters carry out their drama with the back drop of humanity transcending from our current existence into "the next level."

It's a theme pioneered (I think) by Arthur C. Clark's Childhood's End. Whereas Childhood's End was a tour of that transformation with characterization more of an afterthought, Evolution's Shore is about people living life with the "change" in progress as a backdrop. I haven't actually finished it yet, but I was so taken with the book and so enthusiastic about it I HAD to write a review. I hope the last 1/5 is as good as the first 4/5s or I'll have to write a followup. But I don't anticipate having a change of opinion....

Get the book. It is a GREAT read!

Often Interesting, Sometimes Challenging, Rarely Engaging.......2001-09-15

My first Mcdonald novel, after reading a short story of his in a recent anthology. Very disappointing, the all to brief bits about the Chaga (An alien ecosystem forcibly unleashed on the earth to the supposed benefit of mankinds future evolution - pity about the rest of life on earth) are excellent, but the novel is otherwise far too long, this would have better as a novella or short story. Mcdonald has little else to say, can't do plot, is very variable on characterisation and his fiercely held, and not very original, political views permeate the novel making everything, including the ending, far too predictable. He doesnt even seem capable of seeing that his wonderful Chaga is easily viewable as the grossest most arrogant form of 'pseudo colonization' imaginable.

Estuarine Shores: Evolution, Environments and Human Alterations

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Estuarine Shores: Evolution, Environments and Human Alterations

Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
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ASIN: 0471965960

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Evolution's shore
Ian Mcdonald
Manufacturer: BANTAM BOOKS
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VUMF4I

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Evolution's Shore
Ian McDonald
Manufacturer: Bantam Books
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NY1VFG

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Evolutions Shore
introd James Gunn, Artwork Kent Bash, coloured frontispiece Ian McDonald SIGNED by author
Manufacturer: Easton Press,,
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Binding: Leather Bound
ASIN: B000JD48JW

A Family of Pioneers: The Evolution of a Wilderness Farm Into a Modern Community on the Shore of Bay Lake

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A Family of Pioneers: The Evolution of a Wilderness Farm Into a Modern Community on the Shore of Bay Lake
Albert L. Knieff
Manufacturer: Ksa
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Offshore Breakwaters & Shore Evolution C

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Offshore Breakwaters & Shore Evolution C
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Manufacturer: Taylor & Francis
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Shaping of Religion in America How Early Churches in Delaware and on Maryland and Virginia's Eastern Shore Provided the Most Important Stimulus for the Evolution of Christianity in the New World

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Shaping of Religion in America How Early Churches in Delaware and on Maryland and Virginia's Eastern Shore Provided the Most Important Stimulus for the Evolution of Christianity in the New World
Norman Harrington
Manufacturer: Historical Society of Talbot County
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MMKA2Y

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Shaping of religion in America: How early churches in Delaware and on Maryland and Virginia's Eastern Shore provided the most important stimulus for the evolution of Christianity in the New World
Norman Harrington
Manufacturer: Published by the Queen Anne Press for the Historical Society of Talbot County
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ASIN: B0006E1U04

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