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Title: Contigo Pan y Cebolla

Author: Manuel Eduardo De Gorostiza

Release Date: May 17, 2004 [EBook #12368]

Language: Spanish and English

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CONTIGO PAN Y CEBOLLA

POR MANUEL EDUARDO DE GOROSTIZA

EDITED WITH NOTES, EXERCISES, AND VOCABULARY BY ELIZABETH MCGUIRE

FORMERLY INSTRUCTOR IN SPANISH UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

1922

PREFACE

"Contigo Pan y Cebolla," a prose comedy of the lightest sort, affords
a pleasant and attractive glimpse of certain phases of Spanish life
and thought. Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza is said to have written the
play in order to cure his daughter Luisa of her infatuation for a
worthy but impecunious suitor; but in addition to this motive his
purpose is obviously to entertain.

The theme developed is a family affair, and so the vocabulary is
essentially domestic. In this vocabulary of over sixteen hundred
words, many of the phrases and expressions appear again and again in
the natural fashion of every-day speech.

The text used is that found in Book I of the four-volume edition,
"Obras de D. Manuel E. de Gorostiza," Mexico, 1899. From the
standpoint of typography this text is lamentably inexact. The
necessary corrections have been made, and the accentuation is in
accordance with the latest rulings of the Royal Spanish Academy. For
the sake of the student one or two passages have been omitted.

Much work has been left to be done by those who read the play as
prepared. The Spanish-English vocabulary is limited in most cases to
defining the word as it occurs in the text, and frequently only an
approximation of the meaning has been attempted. For instance, the
English equivalents of the same Latin origin as the sonorous Spanish
terms that are used so naturally by the man-servant Bruno and the
garrulous Nicolasa would be strangers to the lips of English-speaking