Amor, magia y tiempo en La Celestina

Abstract

«Love», «magic» and «time» are integral topics in La Celestina thanks to, above all, the masterly alliance established among all three topics in order to bring the ultimate intention of the Tragicomedia to a literary success. Designed, first of all else, as a magnificent and forceful reprobatio amoris, both time and magic are manipulated with a particular skill to increase the effectiveness of the pursued lesson: the former is compressed to the maximum in a couple of represented days, while it is tacitily lengthened without deadline, in order to demonstrate the vertiginous haste of loving sin; the latter justifies, precisely, the immediacy of the passionate fall, aggravating the participant's guilt. Thus, a love comedy as conventional as anodyne, ends suddenly, hastened by magic arts, in an admirable tragicomedy.