by Joan Perucho · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429733693
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«Llibre de cavalleries» is the adventure novel by Joan Perucho, published by El Observador in paperback (137 pages, in Catalan).
Engineer Tomás Safont is recruited by Monsieur Dupont for an adventure on behalf of the King of Aragon. Fascinated by ruins and the medieval, he travels from the Mediterranean to Egypt, Ethiopia, the lands of Prester John, Arabia and Byzantium. He must obtain a relic of Saint Eufrigis, find the fire water and defeat the traitor Paleoleg Dimas.
First novel by Joan Perucho, originally published in 1957. Part of the Clàssics Catalans del Segle XX collection, number 27.
For readers of twentieth-century Catalan narrative with a taste for adventures with a historical and legendary background.
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.
