- Paperback: 244 pages
- Publisher: iUniverse (Dec 1 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 158348812X
- ISBN-13: 978-1583488126
- Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 15.4 x 1.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 376 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,054,006 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
edition.
About the Author
Françs Gordo and Lydia Gordo are the editors of a number of titles in the Compendios Vosgos series.
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un libro bello,
By fraulein (Edison, NJ) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Marianela (Paperback)
Pablo, a rich blind boy is madly in love with poor Marianela. Things go smooth until renowned Doctor Teodoro Golfín offers to cure up Pablo's eyes. Marianela, who thinks she is ugly is afraid that when he starts seeing, he'll see how ugly(on the surface) she really is. Her fears are confirmed when he falls for his beautiful cousin Florentina, who doesn't treat Marianela too well. She is so attached to Pablo that if she doesn't look beautiful for him, she won't be any use to him. A very destructive point of view which she sticks to. It's a tragic ending but it's common in most Spanish-language stories.
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La verdadera capacidad para ver, y para amar,
By El principe (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Marianela (Paperback)
What is the actual implication of this fictitious work? Isn't there a serious, profound and truthful lessons in this love story so down-to-earth but at the same time so complex?Marianela, a love story published in 1878 portrays a relation between a blind man and his guide-- not beautiful a woman, whom he loves and imagine attractive. Yet she worries that once the man recovers his eyesight realizes she is not as pretty as he imagines her to be. The author wisely crafts an interesting symbolism between the capacity to see, which is always spiritual and emotional, and on the other hand the human eyesight which can be inadequate, restrictive and misleading. The implication that runs through the whole story is that adversity is a blessing is disguise, since blindness forces him to be humble enough to perceive the beauty she and other manifest. Once he recovers his eyesight and sees her for the first time with his human eyes, he rejects her. Wasn't he in possession of real sight while blind than when he was able to recover his sight and to humanly see? Isn't Perez Galdos message, that the capacity to see and understand is mental, emotional and not necessarily physical? Human eyesight, according to the author, is illusive while the capacity to see, understand and perceive emotionally is the right and legitimate vision. Finally I can say this classic must be understood as a lesson on the spiritual superiority over the evidence presented by the human senses. This emotionally complex story has a symbolism, it will teach a lesson to whoever is receptive to its deeper meaning.
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Marianela - from a student perspective,
By Sahaja Parsa (Ohio,USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Marianela (Paperback)
Seeing as though I couldn't get the real Marianela quickly, this one suited quite well, perhaps even better. I had to write a paper on it and the simplified language made mush easier to understand.
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