by Joanot Martorell · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429744873
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«Tirant lo Blanc.» is the annotated anthology of the novel by Joanot Martorell, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (336 pages, in Catalan).
This edition brings together the fragments of Tirant lo Blanc prescribed as high school reading by the Department of Education of Catalonia, with an introduction, summaries and commentaries for the study of each text. The novel by Joanot Martorell, a 15th-century Valencian knight, narrates the adventures of the knight Tirant in the East and in Constantinople and is a major work of Catalan literature.
It is published in the El Cangur collection, an imprint of Edicions 62, in a Catalan edition (Barcelona, 1999), within the high school reading line.
Joanot Martorell was a Valencian knight and writer, best known for authoring the novel Tirant lo Blanch, written in Catalan/Valencian and published at Valencia in 1490. This novel is often regarded as one of the peaks of the literature in Catalan language and it played a major role in influencing later writers such as Miguel de Cervantes, who, in the book burning scene of Don Quixote, says "I swear to you, my friend, this is the best book of its kind in the world". The novel deals with the adventures of a knight in the Byzantine Empire; it is considered one of the first works of alternate history.
