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Excerpt from Celestina: Or the Tragi-Comedy of Calisto and Melibea According to Aristotle the function of art is to make good the shortcomings of nature art must take its material from the purposeless world of fact about us, and from it build up within us a new world, the world of imagination, which may embody in itself what Nature is aiming at, but fails to reach. This maxim brings us face to face at once with the dualism of the world in which we live, on the one side concrete facts which we call reality, on the other side thought and imagina tion. Art implies a fusion of these two opposing elements; the artist moulding the material facts of life according to the dictates of imagination, so that they may receive a form and meaning, which in themselves they do not possess. But for one artist who succeeds in this task, a hundred fail; some, since they are unable to do more than copy the world about them, try to find a place for purposeless photographs of existence in the ordered structure of art, while others ignoring the world of facts get lost in the clouds of fancy and people the world of imagination with unsubstantial abstractions. This conżict of realism and idealism1 is the key to the development of the novel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Plays, playscripts

• Full title: Celestina
• Subtitle: Or the Tragi-Comedy of Calisto and Melibea (Classic Reprint)
• Author: Fernando de Rojas
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 436
• EAN: 9781331748267
• ISBN: 9781331748267
• ID: 09781963
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 581 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. July 2015

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