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Tirant Lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell
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Tirant Lo Blanc

by Joanot Martorell

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Not bad but rather long. Seems based very loosely on the late medieval Mediterranean. Does not involve the fantasy elements of some romances; more or less straight military adventures. ( )
  antiquary | Sep 22, 2009 |
I recall this has having been a much better read than Don Quixote (but admit that the years may have made my impression fuzzy, also that I have higher standards now than I had then). Another re-read, I think. ( )
  OwnedLibrarian | Jul 1, 2009 |
immer noch nicht erschienen! ( )
  moricsala | Nov 27, 2007 |
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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 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."

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