Celestina′s Brood

“Celestina’s Brood stands as both a brilliant defense, and as a rich example of the Hispanist critical practice its author has advanced through several decades: a rigorous concentration on text and language, coupled with a revisionist reading of literary history that passionately believes in the worth of both literature and history. As a collection of by now classic essays very much engaged with the present moment. . .Celestina’s Brood defies categorization.” - Kathleen Ross, Hispanic Review

""Roberto González Echevarría's Celestina's Brood is a profound study of the continuity of Hispanic literature, moving as it does from the greatest writers of the Spanish Golden Age—Rojas, Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón—through the transitional figures of Balboa and Medrano—and on to major Latin American imaginations of our age, Carpentier, Nicolás Guillén, and Sarduy. González Echevarría matures here from the disciple of Derrida, de Man, and Foucault into a strong critic with a vision and a method very much his own. He fuses the Baroque and the Romantic, and exemplifies the virtual identity between those two modes in Hispanic literature." - Harold Bloom, Yale University

"This collection of essays is valuable not only for the excellence of the individual pieces but also as the critical itinerary of an eminent and influential Hispanist. Because Roberto González Echevarría has been at the center of critical debates in Hispanism over the last two decades, his evolution as a critic also illuminates changes in the discipline from the sixties to the present. This is a major collection of essays by one of the leading Hispanists in the world today." - Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Duke University