Fiction
Spanish Translator Peter Bush and La Celestina
Mar 31, 2010|6:30pm
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Renowned as a bridge between the end of medieval Spanish literature and its rebirth in a literary renaissance, La Celestina is an immortal tale that has been translated time and time again. A Spanish Romeo and Juliet, La Celestina was published in 1499 and became Spain’s first-ever bestseller, paving the way for everything from Don Quixote to the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, and beyond. Here Peter Bush reads from his new, fresh translation in conjunction with its publication as a Penguin Classic.
Translator
Peter Bush
Peter Bush translates literature in Barcelona. Previously he directed the British Centre for Literary Translation in Norwich. Recent translations are Tyrant Banderas by Ramón del Valle-Inclán, the classic novel of dictatorship in Latin America; Lorca’s first book, Sketches of Spain: Impressions and Landscapes; and Uncertain Glory by Joan Sales, a Catalan classic set behind the lines during the civil war.