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| | Ferrater Mora: The Essayist: The World of Calderón (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | Arturo Farinelli devotes the entire first volume312 pagesof his two-volume work La vita è un sogno, published in 1916, to exploring the antecedents of the theme and title of Calderón's most famous play, La vida es sueño, in figures like Buddha, Plotinus, Algazel, Petrarch, Pandolofo Collenuccio, and Shakespeare, to name only a few. |
 | | (La hija del aire, jornada I) Man is redundantly called "human"; the lake serves as a coffin made of glass. |
 | | (La vida es sueño, jornada I) Now, to speak of pistols as "metal asps" spewing poison whose fire will be a shock, a big noisean "escándalo"for the air, or to introduce "feather bugles" and "iron birds," is not only (although it most certainly is) a literary contortion. |
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