El pergamino de la seducción [The Scroll of Seduction]

By: Gioconda Belli

Narrated by: Adriana Sananes

Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins

Publisher's summary

Con un pretexto de estudiar a fondo la vida de La Reina Juanade Castilla, mejor conocida como Juana La Loca, Manuel, unhistoriador de la universidad Complutense, y Lucía, una jovenestudiante, se entrelazan en una apasionante historia de amor.

Planteando un juego donde la narración se hará a través de lavisión y uso de las ropas del estilo del siglo XVI, Manuel describey narra la vida de la Reina Juana de Castilla, unamujer visionaria dentro de una sociedad machista que no la reconoce como reina, aunque lo ejerce, sino la reduce por su condición de mujer y sus desplantes a ser encerrada, declarándola loca, y así terminar sus días en 1555.Se plantean varias preguntas en esta novela - si en verdad enloqueció de amor, o los celos y la impotencia la hacían tener exabruptos que los irracionales sacerdotes y gente de la corte la catalogaban como loca.Ofue víctima de las intrincadas redes de la política y ambición. Como una vidente o espiritista, Lucía acepta que Juana la Loca entre en su cuerpo y su mente para contar su visión de los hechos.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

©2005 Gioconda Belli (P)2009 Recorded Books, LLC

Entretenida

Creo que el final de la historia fue forzado para acabar rápido. Me hubiera gustado otro desenlace pero no esta nada mal la historia como tal.

excelente libro

Where does El pergamino de la seducción [The Scroll of Seduction] rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

la forma en que se narra la historia

Who was your favorite character and why?

Juana, es una mujer muy valiente e inteligente pra su epoca

Which scene was your favorite?

todas me gustaron

If you could take any character from El pergamino de la seducción [The Scroll of Seduction] out to dinner, who would it be and why?

todos

Any additional comments?

recomiendo mucho este audio libro

Fascinating story, unevenly told

The story of Juana of Castile is intriguing and the premise of telling her story through Lucia, a young, orphaned school girl seemed promising. Unfortunately, I found Lucia's story annoying more often than not -- some aspects seem to be drawn too obviously from the author's own personal early history and sexual activity (The Country Under My Skin). Manuel comes across as a shallowly drawn character exacerbated by the rather wooden narration for his character. I felt the relationship between Manuel and Lucia seemed superficial and unrealistic, never really taking off so that the reader cared about either of them. Juana is a compelling character, but at times is delivered like a Wikipedia profile of her life and history.

I felt that the parallel story lines become contrived and even silly at points. The 'steamy' sections were rather on the clinical side and did not advance the story except to ensure that both Juana and Lucia were both pregnant at the same time and facing terrible life choices, purportedly to make both stories more powerful. Didn't do the job.

Having said that, I far preferred listening to the story (in Spanish) on Audible rather than reading it (also in Spanish) as I had originally tried several years ago when I just stalled out.

Gioconda Belli is a talented writer with interesting ideas and stories to tell. I enjoyed this effort of hers more than the above would indicate. Just wish more of her poetic side had shone through and that her editor had exercised more judgment.

Muy interesante me atrapó la historia

Toda la historia me gusto, me hubiera gustado el final con más detalle, por que me dejo con muchas preguntas, me gusto la narradora de la historia y sus cambios de voz

Super aburrido

Un libro extremadamente aburrido con personajes neuróticos, donde abunda la locura y no precisamente la de Juana.