| Title |
Declaración de las canciones oscuras
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| Names |
Fabre, Luis Felipe.
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| Length |
1 online resource (audio (5 hours, 4 minutes))
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| Book Number |
DB121134
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| Title Status |
Active
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| Download Link |
Downloadable talking book.
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| Narrator |
Useche, Jose Luis.
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| Language |
Spanish
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| Annotation |
"A masterful undertaking of historical literature, following sixteenth-century religious fervor in a picaresque novel about Saint John of the Cross. In August 1592, a bailiff and his two assistants arrive at the monastery of Úbeda, with the secret task of transferring the body of Saint John of the Cross, the great Carmelite poet and mystic who had died the previous year, to his final abode in Segovia. When they exhume him, they find a body incorrupted and as fresh as when he died. Thus commences a series of adventures and misfortunes, with characters that seem to be drawn from mythology. The story written by Luis Felipe Fabre masterfully intertwines with the verses of the friar, as if in them he had prophesied the delirium that would surround his own posthumous transfer. Fabre's text is a highly entertaining novel, full of a sense of humor that manages to honor the mystical poetry of the Carmelite while inviting the reader to reflect on issues such as the sacred and the profane, the body and the soul, and spiritual (and carnal) ecstasy." -- Provided by publisher. -- Some descriptions of sex. Spanish language.
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"En agosto de 1592 arriban al monasterio de Úbeda un alguacil y sus dos ayudantes, con la secreta encomienda de trasladar el cuerpo de fray Juan de la Cruz, el gran poeta y místico carmelita, muerto el año anterior, a su morada final en Segovia. Cuando al exhumarlo lo hallan «incorrupto y tan fresco como cuando murió» se produce un fervor extático por el cuerpo del fraile, que sólo es liberado para su peregrinaje, meses después, a cambio de que una pierna o un brazo, las fuentes discrepan, permanezca en Úbeda. A lo largo del camino suceden toda clase de aventuras e infortunios, con personajes que parecen extraídos de gestas mitológicas, pues no sólo es el cuerpo un codiciado objeto de deseo o fervorosa devoción -- como si fray Juan, que en vida fue un gran seducido, tras su muerte se hubiera convertido en don Juan o el gran seductor --, sino que la historia narrada por Luis Felipe Fabre se entrelaza magistralmente con los versos del fraile, como si en ellos hubiera profetizado el delirio que circundaría a su propio traslado póstumo." -- Proporcionada por la editorial. -- Contiene algunas descripciones de índole sexual.
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| Medium |
Digital Books
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| Audience Notes |
Male narrator. NLS/BPH
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Contains some descriptions of sex. NLS/BPH
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| Local Subject |
Novels
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Spanish, Fiction. (in Spanish) - SPAF
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Titles in Spanish - SPA
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Spanish fiction (in translation) - 863
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Spanish & Portuguese Literature - 860
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| LC Subject |
Monks - Fiction
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Historical fiction
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Novels
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Historical fiction
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| Series |
Narrativa Sexto Piso
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| Call Number |
863.7 AFI
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| Released |
2024
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| Publication Info |
Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress, 2024 (Astoria Media Incorporated, recording studio)
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| Original Publication |
Recorded from: Madrid, España : Sexto Piso, 2021. 9788418342356.
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