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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
Es significativo que, de entre los libros de caballerías quemados por el cura en el Quijote, Cervantes salvara, el Amadís de Gaula, el Palmerín de Inglaterra y el Tirante el Blanco, al que llama "el mejor libro del mundo". Aun con el sentido paródico que tienen los libros de caballerías en la obra de Cervantes, la alusión es reveladora. El Tirant lo Blanc está escrito en un tiempo en que la tradición de los caballeros medievales está en declive, y por un escritor-caballero también un tanto anacrónico. Pero este anacronismo se refiere al mismo tema caballeresco, y no al tratamiento formal, al ámbito internacional de los sucesos o a la ironía y humor de la obra de Joanot Martorell...
Tirant lo Blanc"Some books take a little longer than others to make their way into the world. But 494 years?" This was the question NY Times made some years ago.Tirant lo Blanc is a book that time has done justice to, a book that even the great Cervantes already knew how to value in his intervention in Don Quixote, and that was not valued enough for not being written in a main language, becoming the masterpiece of Valencian (or Catalan) literature for centuries.Anyone who cares to dispute his greatness can argue not with me but with Cervantes. In "Don Quixote," the Spanish novelist makes one of his characters say, "I swear to you, my friend, that when it comes to style, it's the best book in...
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