by Álvaro Cunqueiro · Salvat Editores, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788434580381
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«Las crónicas del sochantre» is the fantasy novel by Álvaro Cunqueiro, published by Salvat Editores, S.A. in paperback (160 pages, in Spanish).
Charles Anne de Crozón, a dreamy and timid precentor, is abducted by a host of souls in purgatory to entertain them with music. Inspired by a Breton tradition analogous to the Santa Compaña, the novel recounts his coexistence with the dead who seem human by day and are skeletons by night, against the backdrop of the French Revolution.
1982 edition in the Biblioteca Básica Salvat collection, with a prologue by Néstor Luján. The original Galician title is As crónicas do sochantre.
For readers of fantasy fiction and 20th-century Spanish literature interested in a short novel with a supernatural atmosphere.
Álvaro Cunqueiro Mora was a Galician novelist, poet, playwright, and journalist. He is the author of many works in both Galician and Spanish, including Merlín e familia. He was a cofounder of the Galician Writers Association. In 1991, Galician Literature Day was dedicated to him.
