by Don Juan Manuel · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420634845
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«El Conde Lucanor» is Don Juan Manuel's collection of didactic tales, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
Count Lucanor presents his doubts to his advisor Patronio, who responds with tales and examples from which a moral and practical lesson emerges. Each episode is structured as a dialogue, and the whole makes this work a landmark of didactic and fictional prose in Castilian.
Modernized edition by Alfonso I. Sotelo, in the El Libro de Bolsillo - Literatura collection. Written in 1335, with original title Libro de los enxiemplos del Conde Lucanor e de Patronio.
Aimed at literature students and readers of classics who want to discover medieval Spanish narrative.
Don Juan Manuel was a Spanish medieval writer, nephew of Alfonso X of Castile, son of Manuel of Castile and Beatrice of Savoy. He inherited from his father the great Lordship of Villena, receiving the titles of Lord, Duke and lastly Prince of Villena. He married three times, choosing his wives for political and economic convenience, and worked to match his children with partners associated with royalty. Juan Manuel became one of the richest and most powerful men of his time, coining his own currency as the kings did. During his life, he was criticised for choosing literature as his vocation, an activity thought inferior for a nobleman of such prestige.
