Paco Cerdá Translates Vicent Andrés Estellés' 'Llibre De Meracelles' Into Spanish

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For more than half a century, the Llibre de meracelles by Vicent Andrés Estellés has circulated as a fundamental work of contemporary Valencian poetry, a book of worship that portrays daily life in the Spain of the Civil War and the post-war period with an unusual intensity. Originally published in 1971 and republished on more than thirty occasions, the volume has consolidated Estellés as one of the great literary voices of the twentieth century…