Historia del famoso predicador Fray Gerundio de Campazas, alias Zotes (1 de 2)
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"Historia del famoso predicador Fray Gerundio de Campazas, alias Zotes (1 de 2)" by José Francisco de Isla is a satirical novel published in 1758. The work ridicules the bombastic preaching style of eighteenth-century Spanish orators who used exaggerated baroque language in the pulpit. The protagonist, Fray Gerundio, becomes famous for his absurdly ornate sermons filled with meaningless phrases. Guided by his grotesque mentor Fray Blas and challenged by the wise Fray
Prudencio, Gerundio's journey exposes the decadent excesses of late baroque rhetoric while offering vivid portraits of Spanish provincial life. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Isla, José Francisco de, 1703-1781 |
|---|---|
| Editor | Lidforss, Edvard, 1833-1910 |
| Title | Historia del famoso predicador Fray Gerundio de Campazas, alias Zotes (1 de 2) |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fray_Gerundio_de_Campazas |
| Credits |
Produced by Ramón Pajares Box and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 35.6 (College-level). Difficult to read. |
| Language | Spanish |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Spanish fiction -- 18th century |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 62926 |
| Release Date | Aug 14, 2020 |
| Last Update | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 531 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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