Long Night of Stone: 3 (Galician Classics) - Softcover

Ferreiro, Celso Emilio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9543840717 ISBN 13: 9789543840717

Publisher: Small Stations Press, 2017

Synopsis

Long Night of Stone is the most famous book of Galician poetry published during Franco’s dictatorship. The poem with this title is the result of the author’s imprisonment in Celanova Monastery during the Spanish Civil War; the book is read as a metaphor for the long years of dictatorship that ensued. Celso Emilio Ferreiro, a man of unwavering commitment, who stands with the downtrodden and oppressed and refuses to give up hope on the world, was himself born in Celanova, a town in the province of Ourense, in 1912 and died in Vigo in 1979. The message the book contains is surprisingly modern, inviting us as it does to investigate the truth of our own time and find our poetry. This English edition was first published in 2012 and is now reprinted.

Edition details

• Publisher: Small Stations Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9543840717
• ISBN 13: 9789543840717
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96