by Ana María Matute · Espasa · tapa dura · ISBN 9788423976645
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«Olvidado rey Gudú» is the fantasy novel by Ana María Matute, published by Espasa in hardcover (872 pages, in Spanish).
The story follows the expansion of the Kingdom of Olar, whose borders mark a mysterious North, an inhospitable steppe and an exuberant South. A shrewd southern girl, the magic of an old sorcerer and the rules of a creature from the underworld intervene in that destiny. The whole reads as a metaphor for the human soul.
Second installment of Ana María Matute's Medieval Trilogy, published in the Espasa Narrativa collection.
A work of epic fantasy and literary narrative, intended for readers interested in twentieth-century Spanish literature.
Ana María Matute Ausejo was a Spanish writer and member of the Real Academia Española. In 1959, she received the Premio Nadal for Primera memoria. The third woman to receive the Cervantes Prize for her literary oeuvre, she is considered one of the foremost novelists of the posguerra, the period immediately following the Spanish Civil War.
