by Joanot Martorell · Booket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408062158
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«Tirante el Blanco» is the chivalric novel by Joanot Martorell, published by Booket in paperback (1216 pages, in Spanish).
Written between 1460 and 1466, the novel reflects the society and chivalric life of the mid-fifteenth century. Joanot Martorell, a Valencian knight whose life was marked by feats of arms, shapes a tale considered one of the best chivalric novels and which inspired the movie by Vicente Aranda.
The edition, with introduction and notes by Martín de Riquer, uses the sixteenth-century Castilian translation.
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.
