by Gustave Flaubert · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788487521119
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«Salambó» is the historical novel by Gustave Flaubert, published by Lipari Ediciones in paperback (340 pages, in Spanish).
Set in ancient Carthage, the novel recounts the rebellion of the mercenaries against the city after the First Punic War. In this setting of sieges and conspiracies, the chieftain Máto becomes obsessed with Salambó, daughter of Hamilcar and priestess of Tanit; that forbidden passion intertwines with sacred rituals and war.
According to the cover, the translation is by H. Giner de los Ríos; the Lipari Ediciones edition was published in Madrid in 1995.
For readers of historical fiction and French literary classics interested in ancient Carthage.
Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.
