by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester · Grupo Anaya Publicaciones Generales · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420634005
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«La isla de los jacintos cortados» is the novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (361 pages, in Spanish).
On the island of Gorgona, Ariadna, a Greek student, is at the center of a love triangle with her two professors: the Frenchman Claire and the Spanish narrator. The work blends reality, fantasy, irony, humor, eroticism and melancholy, and reflects on truth and appearance, history and fiction, with prose ranging from baroque to simple.
Originally published in 1980, it won the National Literature Prize in 1981. It is the third installment of Gonzalo Torrente Ballester's fantastic trilogy.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction and for those who enjoy novels that combine reality and fantasy.
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester was a Spanish writer associated with the Generation of '36 movement.
