The Metal of the Dead - Hardcover

Concha Espina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0838755453 ISBN 13: 9780838755457

Publisher: Bucknell University Press,U.S., 2003

Synopsis

A complex novel with an epic cast of characters, Concha Espina's 'The Metal of the Dead' offers a documentary account of the events leading up to the 1917 workers' strike against the unfair labor practices of the Rio Tinto Ltd., the multinational conglomerate managing Spain's oldest copper mine. Intertwined with a detailed chronicle of social unrest and highly technical descriptions of the mines' geological structure and of different mining operations, are the romantic relationships of three feminine protagonists: Aurora, an angelic young woman from Spain's northern highlands, who is engaged to Gabriel Suarez, a miner who becomes an anarchist; Rosario, a newspaper reporter from Madrid, who falls in love with Aurelio Echea, the Socialist union leader, who, like several other characters in the novel, is based on a real-life figure; and Casilda, a passionate Andalusian beauty, who, like Bizet's Carmen, spurns the man who loves her, while yearning for one who resists her charms.

About this title

Review:

Anna-Maria Aldaz is Professor of Spanish at Northern Arizona University

About the Author:

Susan Kirkpatrick provides an overview of the period, and Anna-Marie Aldaz adds a discussion of Spanish versification as well as biographical sketches of the twenty-one poets whose works bring alive the first decades of women's emergence as a force in the Spanish literary world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bucknell University Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0838755453
• ISBN 13: 9780838755457
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 311