La Celestina

In a vibrant new translation, Ilan Stavans introduces de Rojas’s fifteenth century classic to a new generation of readers and includes a novelistic reimagining that highlights the original’s humor, erotic obsession, social precarity, and philosophical instability.

“If Cervantes had never been born, La Celestina would be the greatest imaginative work produced in Spain,” according to eminent Spanish critic Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo. It is also one of the earliest precursors we have of a Jewi...