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Don Juan Tenorio, el drama romántico por excelencia, es una de las pocas obras que han tenido y siguen teniendo una vida auténticamente popular. Difícil seria encontrar un espanol que no sepa recitar de memoria alguno de sus versos. El drama, que repite el viejo tema de Don Juan, ha adquirido una eficacia literaria inusitada en la mezcla de temas de capa y espada con los r
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Paperback, 35.ª ed., 226 pages
Published
2017
by Cátedra
(first published 1844)
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I technically read this first online in the play form, and it blew me away. I had always heard about it, but never took the time to check it out. A friend of mine was working on a book report at the time, and needed me to help, but I had never read it before. She gave me a site to go to where I could read it in English and Spanish (good thing because I can't read Spanish very well haha). I skimmed over it, then found myself re-reading it a few times to get a better idea of it and because I adore
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honestly i prefer the version where he gets dragged to hell but i'm not entirely sure i should
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Uno de los mejores libros que he leido definitivamente. Al principio me costó un poco encontrarle sentido pero una vez lo empecé a leer en voz audible fue como si los personajes cobraran vida y ¡simplemente no pude parar! Me emocioné hasta el final. Y aunque estuvo un poco rara la segunda parte creo que por el tema fue la que más me gustó. / One of the best books I've ever read definately. At first it was a little hard to make sense of it but once I started to read it aloud it was as if the char
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This is the most famous depiction of the ancient legend of Don Juan, the unrepentant and bold sinner from Spain. A masterwork of Romanticism, "Don Juan" tells the story of Juan Tenorio, a worldly man whose only interest in life is to seduce as many women as he can. He makes a bet with his friend Luis Mejía, to see who is more fortunate with women. Don Juan wins, but his father writes him off from his testament. After that, Don Juan rapes Luis' fiancée. All this gives him, of course, a bad reputa
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"It is not true love angel
That on this secluded shore
The moon shines brighter
And it breathes better ".....
Words of Don Juan Tenorio conquering one of his multiple conquests, who was a novice of a convent, just for the pleasure of doing so.
I had to read this book and know the true adventures of Don Juan ...
And to think that everything started with a bet with a friend, Don Luis, to see who was worse in a year both conquering women and killing people. The great master Don Juan conquered more than 7 ...more
That on this secluded shore
The moon shines brighter
And it breathes better ".....
Words of Don Juan Tenorio conquering one of his multiple conquests, who was a novice of a convent, just for the pleasure of doing so.
I had to read this book and know the true adventures of Don Juan ...
And to think that everything started with a bet with a friend, Don Luis, to see who was worse in a year both conquering women and killing people. The great master Don Juan conquered more than 7 ...more
*For college*
This is not my kind of book at all but since I had to read it for college, I had to give it a try. It is not hard to read but it lacks a good plot. For the time in which it was written, it was a masterpiece and I understand why since it represents every aspect of the Romanticism. Anyway, the story itself is predictable and boring and it didn't add anything to my knowledge. Still, a good classic to read. ...more
This is not my kind of book at all but since I had to read it for college, I had to give it a try. It is not hard to read but it lacks a good plot. For the time in which it was written, it was a masterpiece and I understand why since it represents every aspect of the Romanticism. Anyway, the story itself is predictable and boring and it didn't add anything to my knowledge. Still, a good classic to read. ...more
I think Moliére's was better, shorter and to the point. And dare I say funnier? Okay, so there was mercy for don Juan on this one, but I didn't get the same feeling of justice. This don Juan was all around a bad guy who was saved by a nun tricked by him, who still loved him dearly, so they get to Heaven... like I said, nice for mercy purposes, but not as shocking as the earth opening and swallowing don Juan.
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4.0
Read for school, in Spanish, and I swear I did not expect to like it as much as I did! There were the usual issues for "old" books (stories moving too fast, undevelopped characters, unnecessarily complicated vocabulary...) but I read it in less than 24 hours, and it was a very, very enjoyable classic. Very happy with this one. Also, it's the first book I've finished in a MONTH. >.< ...more
Read for school, in Spanish, and I swear I did not expect to like it as much as I did! There were the usual issues for "old" books (stories moving too fast, undevelopped characters, unnecessarily complicated vocabulary...) but I read it in less than 24 hours, and it was a very, very enjoyable classic. Very happy with this one. Also, it's the first book I've finished in a MONTH. >.< ...more
An amazing work that explains the genius of the original, providing context, explanation and interpretation, all while presenting a translation that is faithful to the original in both content and meter. Too often, we are faced with the decision of choosing a work that reflects only one or the other. I genuinely hope to see this as a theatrical production some day.
An excellent step in the evolution of the Don Juan archetype. Read with Tirso de Molina's "El Burlador de Sevilla" for a cool contrast with the original Don Juan story. Zorrilla's version is from the Romantic Period, and that influence is strongly felt in the changes from the original plotline.
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Seductor. Breaks the law... Kills people. He gets killed and doesn't even know he's dead...
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Jun 26, 2009
Lindsay Wuchner
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
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I love this play! It is a great version of that famous lover Don Juan! Beautifully written.
The original Don Juans are far more entertaining than you would think. Scandalous and sooo much fun to read. There's a reason there were hundreds of these written.
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Gotta love all the Don Juans out there!
I read this book in High School and I did love it of course I read it again and I still have the same feelings. It's a good book.
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I would really changed the dialogues. Why they have to be so unreal? But good for escaping from the reality."D
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this was for school too! damnnnnnnnnnn don juan
A classic of nineteenth century Spanish literature, this play in verse is probably the best-known version of the Don Juan legend after Molière's play and Mozart's opera (Byron's poem is not really about the same character, as far as it was completed). The play begins with the meeting of Don Juan and Don Luis, to settle their bet as to which of the two could in one year kill the most men and seduce the most women; Don Juan of course has won easily. He then extends the bet -- he will seduce Don Lu
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"true love", whatever that means, doesn't change people.
good to read because it's a classic, but everything that happens is so unrealistic and annoying to have to read through.
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good to read because it's a classic, but everything that happens is so unrealistic and annoying to have to read through.
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I'm very happy because of the ending. It surprised me.
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Fucking work of art. Nothing to add.
Better than I expected.
It was quite an entertaining play, although I much rather go to the theater and see it live.
Mar 15, 2016
Italia8989
rated it
it was ok
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review of another edition
Shelves:
insane-to-attempt-reading-this,
forced-reads
Every single page of this book was like taking someone's hand and letting them pull you straight to hell over and over again.
I'm not talking about the fact that it is in Spanish, but this defining fact certainly doesn't help. The main problem with this book is its dramatic-ism without explanation and its characterizing "romantic" era writing. This is the type of book where gown men faint yet have exploits of over 72 women. This is the type of book where young women fall in love over a letter. Th ...more
I'm not talking about the fact that it is in Spanish, but this defining fact certainly doesn't help. The main problem with this book is its dramatic-ism without explanation and its characterizing "romantic" era writing. This is the type of book where gown men faint yet have exploits of over 72 women. This is the type of book where young women fall in love over a letter. Th ...more
I always find it more difficult to read books required for school than those I choose myself, and reading in Spanish is even more difficult (although I must admit I found an English translation and I used that much of the time). But I think even if I was reading this on my own time, in English, I wouldn't have particularly enjoyed it. It was boring and not a particularly good adaptation of Don Juan. The ending was cheesy and didn't have the impact of something like Mozart's Don Giovanni, another
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Boring with few highlighs (Some nice Don Juan quotes, Don Luis and Don Juan comparing who killed and slept with more people). Hated how he regrets everything, proclaims his love to Inés and then ascend to the heavens. I mean, womanizer and scoundrel Don Juan dying on his knees for love and regretting his misdeeds is a nice message, but I'm a cynic.
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This is a re-telling of El burlador de Sevilla, but with a very different ending. The ending is redemptive but doesn't really seem to fit with the rest of the play. It's Romantic, but of the conservative Romantic strain in Spain (the solution is religious, and the bad guy is saved).
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A i read it longer time ago i can´t actually remember why i didn't like it. Well Don Juan was definitely not one of my favorite characters but still i can tell that the story was quite interesting to read and the ending was what you maybe didn't expect.
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