Historia del famoso predicador Fray Gerundio de Campazas, alias Zotes (2 de 2)

"Historia del famoso predicador Fray Gerundio de Campazas, alias Zotes (2 de 2)" by José Francisco de Isla is a satirical novel published in 1758. The work ridicules the ornate, meaningless preaching style popular in eighteenth-century Spain. Fray Gerundio, distinguished by his terrible taste and love of pretentious phrases, navigates his career alongside his grotesque teacher Fray Blas and his wise friend Fray Prudencio. Through vivid descriptions of people, towns, and customs, the novel documents Spanish life while mocking the degenerating excesses of baroque oratory. (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 (2 de 2)
Note Wikipedia page about this book: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fray_Gerundio_de_Campazas
Credits 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: 34.3 (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. 63700
Release Date
Last Update Oct 18, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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