by Benjamin Jarnes · Alianza Editorial. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420617268
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«El Cantar de Roldán» is the anonymous medieval epic in the version by Benjamín Jarnés, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (132 pages, in Spanish).
Medieval chanson de geste narrating the Battle of Roncevaux and the death of the knight Roland. Amid battles and betrayals, the work builds a heroic ideal centered on honor, loyalty and sacrifice, reflecting feudal society.
This edition is number 726 of the El libro de bolsillo collection, Classics section of Alianza Editorial, and reproduces the Castilian version by Benjamín Jarnés based on La Chanson de Roland.
For readers of medieval classics, for those studying them at school, and for those interested in epic poetry and French literature.
Benjamín Jarnés Y Millán was a Spanish writer. Having been a soldier for a decade, he quit the army in 1920 and published his first novel in 1924. His second novel El profesor inútil met with success and was followed by books such as El convidado de papel (1928) and Teoría del zumbel (1930). He was one of the contributors of the Madrid-based Revista de Occidente and the Valencia-based Orto magazine between 1932 and 1934.
