by Fernando Arrabal · Bibliotex - El Mundo · tapa dura · ISBN 9788481303452
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«La torre herida por el rayo» is Fernando Arrabal's novel about a world chess championship, published by Bibliotex and El Mundo in hardcover (221 pages, in Spanish).
The action takes place during a world chess championship and focuses on the duel between two rivals of opposite temperaments, Elías Tarsis and Marc Amary. The narrative alternates the progress of the game with the lives and obsessions of both contenders, combining the tension at the board with revenge, madness and mysticism in an adventure full of humor.
Edition with a prologue by Ángel Berenguer that includes the moves of the twenty-fourth game of the chess championship. Winner of the Eugenio Nadal Prize in 1982.
For readers interested in twentieth-century Spanish narrative and novels with a chess theme.
Fernando Arrabal Terán is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist, and poet. He was born in Melilla and settled in France in 1955. Regarding his nationality, Arrabal describes himself as "desterrado", or "half-expatriate, half-exiled".
