by Joan Perucho · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429733648
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«Les aventures del cavaller Kosmas» is the chivalric novel by Joan Perucho, published by El Observador in paperback (139 pages, in Catalan).
Adventure novel starring Kosmas, a tax collector of the Byzantine Empire and amateur theologian, who travels from the Council of Toledo to Jerusalem via Rome, Byzantium and the Costa Brava. He must face the stuttering demon Arnulf and medieval creatures now considered mythical, and falls chastely in love with a bewitched young woman.
1991 edition in the Clàssics Catalans del Segle XX collection (no. 22). The work, originally from 1981, received the Ramon Llull, Crítica de Narrativa Catalana and Joan Crexells awards.
Recommended for readers of contemporary Catalan fiction and adventure stories with historical and fantastical backgrounds.
Joan Perucho Gutiérrez was a Spanish novelist, poet and art critic, an activity that alternated with his profession as a judge. His work, written in Catalan and Spanish mix with other traditional elements of avant-garde and science fiction that endow great originality. Natural Stories is his best known work.
