Tirant Lo Blanc - Softcover

Martorell, Joanot; Joan De Galba, Marti

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801854210 ISBN 13: 9780801854217

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996

Synopsis

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."

About this title

About the Author:

Joanot Martorell, a fifteenth-century Catalan nobleman, is believed to have written about three-fourths of Tirant lo Blanc. After his death, the novel was completed by his friend, Martí Joan de Galba.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Catalan

About this edition

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0801854210
• ISBN 13: 9780801854217
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 668