Tirant lo Blanch

by Joanot Martorell

Other authorsMartí Joan de Galba (Author), Vicent Josep Escartí (Editor), Anna Isabel Peirats (Editor), Albert G. Hauf (Editor)

Paper Book, 2005

Call number

849.933

Genres

General Fiction

All Topics

Fiction

Collections

Your library, Narrativa

Publication

València: Tirant lo Blanch, 2005 [DL 2004]

Description

First published in the Catalan language in Valencia in 1490, Tirant lo Blanc ("The White Tyrant") is a sweeping epic of chivalry and high adventure. With great precision and verve, Martorell narrates land and sea battles, duels, hunts, banquets, political maneuverings, and romantic conquests. Reviewing the first modern Spanish translation in 1969 (Franco had ruthlessly suppressed the Catalan language and literature), Mario Vargas Llosa hailed the epic's author as "the first of that lineage of God-supplanters--Fielding, Balzac, Dickens, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Joyce, Faulkner--who try to create in their novels an all-encompassing reality."

User reviews

LibraryThing member DinadansFriend

This is a very fun book. It's one of the few medieval romances to deal with masturbation, for instance. The translation produced a great reading experience, and justified the review by Cervantes in "Don Quixote". A knight has a great many adventures, and wins his true love. A great book to read

while devouring the Penguin, two volume edition of "the Morte d' Arthur". As far as I know the triumph of Catalan medieval literature.

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LibraryThing member kabouter

Very long (and winding) story about the ideals of knighthood. The story itself could be told in less pages, but then the writer always feels the need to write about the dress code of knights, kings and so on. The use of quote from ancient texts is also something that is done quite often in the

book. And off course the book glorifies Catholicism... Not a book I will want to revisit in the near future.

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LibraryThing member hbergander

A pillar on the way to the modern novel.

LibraryThing member Huaquera

Originally written in Catalan. The text is in English. the format provides a window into a
very different style of writing.

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