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Basically an abriged version of the original

Revisado: 03-06-20

Seriously the translation is awful. It's quite obvious that the translator is making a concerted effort to sanitize Teresa of Avila's more challenging facets. Most egregiously, the translator often chooses the translate the word "pecado" which means "sin" into the phrase "missing the mark" which certainly sounds less scary than "sin."

This isn't the only problem, she also chooses in many instances to straight up drop Teresa of Avila's remarks of self-deprecation, which in the original text illustrate her penitent spirit and dependence on grace. Along the same lines, the translator will at times editorialize and cut back on the original version's praises for Christ, whom Teresa spoke to as a husband and addressed with deep devotion.

I am lucky that I speak and read Spanish and can easily go to the original Spanish. I tried this version because I wanted an audiobook I could listen in the car and figured an English version would be better produced than a Spanish version, but the above mentioned problems were so frequent and egregious I just resolved to reading the book in its original spanish instead of listening to this terrible translation.

Avoid if you want to get to know the real Teresa of Avila. It's fine if you want to get a general idea of who she was but be aware this is a kind of hippie, sanitized version of the true text.

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It's fine I guess

Revisado: 07-26-19

To me most of these observations are obvious. I can see how some individuals might find it useful, but it's not that fun of a read and the case studies are not boring but also not fantastically fascinating.

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A good story poorly told.

Revisado: 04-24-18

There is great drama in an interesting historical context happening here. The stort itself suffers due to a beautiful yet contrived style wjich sacrifices clarity for the sake of elegance.

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Excellent Magical Realism

Revisado: 03-21-17

This book manages to be many things: an adventure story, a war time historic drama, a suspenseful noir mystery, and a rumination on internal conflict and existentialism. Seemingly disparate, it ties all loose threads together in a masterfully constructed work of literature.

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What an awful piece of middle school trash

Revisado: 01-10-17

A masturbatory, conflict-less, plotless excuse for a novel with paper-thin characters that reads like Firefly fanfiction.

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