by Baltasar Porcel · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432220821
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«Los Argonautas» is the novel by Baltasar Porcel published by Seix Barral in paperback (199 pages, in Spanish).
The narrative follows the Botafoc, a smuggling launch that travels from Gibraltar to Mallorca captained by Lleonard Juvera, a man marked by the civil war and a destroyed love. He is accompanied by a surly peasant, a motorcyclist, a deserter and a superstitious cook; it combines sea and adventure with brutality, lyricism, sensuality, irony and tragedy.
The book is number 73 in the Seix Barral Contemporary Literature collection. The work was originally published in Catalan under the title «Els Argonautes».
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction interested in stories of the sea, smuggling and characters marked by their past.
Baltasar Porcel i Pujol was a Spanish writer, journalist and literary critic. His enormous legacy credited him as one of the greatest authors in Catalan literature from the 20th century.
