Menosprecio de Corte y Alabanza de Aldea / Arte de Marear

by Antonio de Guevara, Asunción Rallo (Editor)

Frente a las aventuras caballerescas que leían los cortesanos de principios del siglo XVI, la obra de Antonio de Guevara debio de suponer un contrapunto reflexivo, incluso moralista. El autor adopta la forma de un cortesano o de un marinero y extrae de la experiencia personal principios válidos para la conducta humana universal.

368 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1947

About the author

Antonio de Guevara (c. 1481 – 3 April 1545)

Spanish chronicler and moralist, Franciscan monk and bishop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio...

Reviews

[Aitana S. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Este libro tiene muchas lecturas modernas posibles mi favorita es la de que la gente está muy metida en el bucle del trabajo (corte) y cuando se quedan en el paro se quieren m4t4r (aldea)

[Catherine · Rating 2 out of 5]

Menosprecio de Corte: yes
Alabanza de Aldea: no

[Rogue · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5

[Seingalt · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's been years since I read Menosprecio de corte, and what I most remember about it is how surprised I was--it was assigned reading, and I went into it expecting the reading to be nothing but a chore--to find it resonating with me. It is, in a sense, a self-help book, a kind of book I ordinarily abhor; it talks about how horrible the "corte"--the court, that is, the capital, New York City, if you like--is, how hypocritical its inhabitants are, how it is above all ambitious poseurs who succeed, how even the food in the city is awful. The countryside, Guevara suggests, the village, is where it's at.

The excellent and most caustic seventeenth-century critic Pierre Bayle said of one of Guevara's books that its immense popularity spoke most ill of Spain and its people. But not all the French detested Guevara's work. A French version of Menosprecio was, for instance, among a young Molière's first literary endeavors.