by Fernando Fernán Gómez · Aliar 2015 Ediciones, S.L. · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9791388058585
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Fernando Fernán Gómez is renowned for the honesty, critical realism, and linguistic brilliance of his writing. 'El mal amor', a finalist for the 1987 Premio Planeta, is a lucid and biting work that explores the degradation of affection through power, routine, and emotional wear. The plot follows a medieval archpriest sentenced to monastic confinement, whose story intertwines with the picaresque situations experienced in the lands of Count Don Sancho, where the arrival of courtly love generates conflict and unrest among his people.
This novel is a masterful portrait of characters trapped in their own fears and contradictions, condemned to face the difficulty of loving without possessing. With fine irony, Fernán Gómez offers a profound reading on human nature and the complexities of romantic relationships in a fascinating historical context.
