by Vladimir Bartol · Diario El País, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788498152418
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«Alamut» is the historical novel by Vladimir Bartol, published by Diario El País in hardcover (528 pages, in Spanish).
At the fortress of Alamut, in Persia, Hassan Ibn Saba indoctrinates the hashashins (origin of the word «assassin») to fight against the Turks in 1092. The method is to promise an illusory paradise that eliminates the fear of death; a manipulation that Bartol conceived in 1938 as a denunciation of totalitarianism.
Work originally published in 1938; volume 37 of the El País Historical Novel collection; translation by Mauricio Wacquez.
For readers of historical fiction and classic fiction interested in political manipulation and fanaticism.
Vladimir Bartol was a writer from the Slovene minority in Italy. He is best known for his 1938 novel Alamut, the most popular work of Slovene literature around the world, which has been translated into numerous languages.
