by Donald Barthelme · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422659747
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«El Rey» is Donald Barthelme's satirical novel, published in 1996 by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (191 pages, in Spanish).
In the midst of World War II, King Arthur and the Round Table fight the Nazis instead of the Saxons. Radio broadcasts their deeds and their blunders, ladies are no longer what they used to be, and the question is whether to use the atomic bomb, the new Grail. Barthelme turns this anachronism into a satire on war, power and disenchantment.
Original title: «The King»; original in English from 1990, Spanish edition from 1996. Translation by Vicente Campos and introduction by Javier Alfaya.
For readers seeking literary satire, revisions of the Arthurian legend and fiction with a wartime backdrop.
