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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Joanot Martorell, Miguel Hernández, José María Soler García, Vicente Alejandro Guillamón, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Enric Valor I Vives, José Martínez Ruiz, Laura Gallego García, Gabriel Miró Ferrer, Francisco de Moncada, 3rd Marquis of Aitona, Daniel Torres, Vicente Verdú, Joan Elies Adell I Pitarch, Robert Juan-Cantavella, Juan Jose Marti, Manuel Sanchis I Guarner, Jordi de Sant Jordi, Isabel-Clara Simó, Josep Maria Bayarri, Matilde Asensi, Vicent Partal. Excerpt:Daniel Torres Daniel Torres (born August 20, 1958, in Teresa de Cofrentes , Valencia ) is a Spanish comics artist and writer , known for several series, including Rocco Vargas . Bibliography item Rocco Vargas: The Dark Forest (HC, Dark Horse 2001) item Rocco Vargas: A Game of Gods (HC, Dark Horse 2004) item Rocco Vargas: Walking with Monsters (HC, Dark Horse 2005) References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Enric Valor i Vives (1911 in Castalla , l'Alcoià 2000 in Valencia ) was a Valencian narrator and grammarian who made one of the most important contributions to the re-collection and recovery of Valencian lexicography and its standardization in the Valencian Community , Spain . Biography Enric Valor was born in 1911, the son of an affluent family from Castalla , in the Valencian comarca of l'Alcoià . In 1930, at the age of nineteen, he became a journalist in Alicante writing in the satirical newspaper El Tio Cuc , in Valencian. During the Second Spanish Republic he was active as a politician. His main demand was for autonomous status for the Valencian Community. He was also at this time working in the city of Valencia in the nationalist newspapers La República de les Lletres , El Camí and El País Valencià . When the Spanish Civil War broke out he supported the Spanish R... ... Read more

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Title: Tirant lo Blanc, novela sin fronteras.(del autor catalán Joanot Martorell)
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Publication: Letras Libres (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 6Issue: 63Page: 42(3)

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CHAPTER I

In the fertile, rich and lovely island of England there lived a
most valiant knight, noble by his lineage and much more for his
courage. In his great wisdom and ingenuity he had served the
profession of chivalry for many years and with a great deal of
honor, and his fame was widely known throughout the world. His
name was Count William of Warwick. This was a very strong knight
who, in his virile youth, had practiced the use of arms,
following wars on sea as well as land, and he had brought many
battles to a successful conclusion.

The count found himself at the advanced age of fifty-five, and
moved by divine inspiration he decided to withdraw from the
practice of arms and make a pilgrimage to the holy land of
Jerusalem. This virtuous count wanted to go, because he felt
sorrow and contrition for the many deaths he had caused in his
youth.

That evening he told the countess, his wife, about his plans, and
although she was virtuous and discreet, she became very upset at
the news because she loved him so much. In the morning the count
had all his servants, both men and women, come to him, and he
said:

"My children and most faithful servants, it is the will of His
Divine Majesty that I should leave you, and the time of my return
is uncertain. Since the journey will be very dangerous, I want
to pay each of you now for all the good services you have
rendered to me." ... Read more

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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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Tirant Lo Blanc
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Brilliant
Sheer genius! A joy to read! If anyone out there has my copy - I WANT IT BACK!!!
If you are in anyway interested in the late middle ages, chivalry or early literature... BUY THIS BOOK NOW!!!

A unfairly forgotten masterpiece
Once I read an essay about anthologies written by Jorge Luis Borges. All anthologies (he said, I don't remember the exact words, but I do remember the idea) are arbitrary conventions, but only time makes real, unforgettable anthologies. Although I agree with the Argentine writer, I must add that time is sometimes an unfair judge. So unfair that it left behind this masterpiece of Catalan literature, one of the greatest book I've ever read, a book that stands alongside such undisputable masterpieces as "El Engenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha" and "War and Peace". Joanot Martorell built the Universe. After reading his rich work, we cannot but regret how poor is the literature of our times, how narrow-minded are the presumptuous writers of nowadays. "Tirant lo Blanc" is not just a chivalry story. It's much more than that. It's a book about love and romance, about honor and war, about sex and chastity, about boldness and bravery. Its settings comprise several countries; it has more than a hundred characters, many of them richly portrayed with subtle psychology. We, readers of the twentieth-first century, use to look despicably at the literature of the middle-ages for we take the "dark age" as a decaying era between the classical times of Greeks and Romans and the Renaissance (Dante is an exception to this tough judgment). If you think thus, read this book and you'll find how wrong and unfair your pre-conceived ideas are. I bet you'll be surprised with Martorell's boldness in sexual affairs, with his mastery of plot, with the unpredictable behavior of his characters, with the unsurpassed richness of scenarios. You will find that the literature of our times is too conventional notwithstanding all the modernist and post-modernist' experimentations.
But, be aware: this book is just for those who really love literature. If you are looking for entertainment, please buy another book. You will not bear its slow pace, the endless dialogues and the sometimes boring letters the characters send one to another.

A Masterpiece For All Time....
Writen about 100 years prior to Don Quixote de la Mancha, and the appearance of the modern novel, Tirant Lo Blanc is a refreshing and interesting masterpiece on Mideaval society, love and the rules that governed the nobility of the time.

Indirectly, it gives us a look at the lives of Catalan knights, troubadours, merchants, peasants, sailors and the clergy.The book is politically incorrect (thank goodness), and if you are tired of modern "cleansed" interpretations of life during the middle ages, you need to read this book. Be prepared for the unexpected, and also be aware that its structure will at times give you the feeling of a slow read.But, as I said, the material is pure gold!

A Medieval Romp
An absolute romp, filled with fighting, romance and intrigue. A fictional story written in the fifteenth century about a knight that rivals any that ever lived and many that never did.If your after medieval fiction this is one you should have, it rivals anything that Chaucer wrote. ... Read more