<p>First published in the Catalan language in Valencia in 1490, Tirant lo Blanc ("The White Tyrant") is a sweeping epic of chivalry and high adventure. With great precision and verve, Martorell narrates land and sea battles, duels, hunts, banquets, political maneuverings, and romantic conquests. Reviewing the first modern Spanish translation in 1969 (Franco had ruthlessly suppressed the Catalan language and literature), Mario Vargas Llosa hailed the epic's author as "the first of that lineage of God-supplanters―Fielding, Balzac, Dickens, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Joyce, Faulkner―who try to create in their novels an all-encompassing reality."</p>

Tirant Lo Blanc

Literature & Fiction

Martorell, Joanot

Joan de Galba, Marti

United States

Johns Hopkins University Press

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++British LibraryT094692Anonymous. By Joanot Martorell.  Translated and adapted by the Comte de Caylus.  The setting is apparently the same as that of Westein and Smith in Amsterdam.Londres [i.e. Amsterdam] : [chez Westein & Smith], [1740?]. 2v. ; 8°

Histoire du vaillant chevalier Tiran le Blanc. Traduite de l'espagnol. ... Volume 2 of 2 (French Edition)

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Words, Language & Grammar

Gale ECCO, Print Editions

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++British LibraryT094692Anonymous. By Joanot Martorell. Translated and adapted by the Comte de Caylus. The setting is apparently the same as that of Westein and Smith in Amsterdam.Londres [i.e. Amsterdam] : [chez Westein & Smith], [1740?]. 2v. ; 8°

Histoire du vaillant chevalier Tiran le Blanc. Traduite de l'espagnol. ... Volume 1 of 2 (French Edition)

First published in 1490, Tirant lo Blanc has been called “the best book in the world” by no less than Miguel de Cervantes, author of the immortal Don Quixote de la Mancha. And in our own time, Mario Vargas Llosa has said the following: “Tirant lo Blanc is a novel that nourishes that all-encompassing yearning of the great novels of all times which, like the Quixote, War and Peace, La Comédie Humaine, Moby Dick, the saga of Faulkner, seem to want to emulate the Supreme Being in the creation of a world as diverse, complex and self-sufficient as the real world, of a fiction that competes with life in its ever-increasing diversification.”  A spicy, brutally realistic novel of knights and ladies of medieval times, this book was written in Catalan, translated into Spanish in 1511 in an abridged form, into Italian in the 16th century, into French in the 17th century, and did not make an appearance in English until late in the 20th century. It has since then been made into a movie directed by Vicente Aranda, alternately entitled “The Maidens' Conspiracy.”  Among the reasons that the world outside of Spain has been somewhat late in responding to the value of this novel may be that it was originally written in Catalan, whose literature is not widely read in the original tongue. But another reason may be its overemphasis on rhetorical elements. As one scholar says, if the novelist had cut many of these elements, "his book would in that case have been reduced to approximately one-fourth of its present size, but quite probably it would now be considered a masterpiece of narration and dialogue."  Such has been the aim of this translation: The story line has been slightly abridged, but the most dramatic change is that most of the rhetoric has been eliminated, leaving in the major plot line, with its brutal tournament jousts, bloody battles between the Christian forces and their enemies, its treachery, slapstick humor, ribald bedroom scenes and tender moments of love.  As Cervantes puts it in the Quixote, “'Heaven help me!’ shouted the curate. ‘Here is Tirant lo Blanc! Hand it to me, my friend. I tell you that in it I have found a treasure of contentment and a mine of entertainment. Here is Kyrieleison of Montalbán, a valiant knight, and his brother, Tomás of Montalbán, and the knight Fonseca, and the battle that the valiant Tirant waged with the greyhound, and the witticisms of the maiden Plaerdemavida, along with the amours and deceit of the Widow Repose, and the Empress in love with the squire Hippolytus.'”  Having read this novel, who could forget the characters that Martorell has brought to life? Who would not feel grief at the death of Tirant and the princess, no less united in soul than Calisto and Melibea in Spain (making their appearance a few short years later in Fernando de Rojas' masterpiece, La Celestina), than Romeo and Juliet in England, and no less tragic? And in remembering Tirant, who would not smile at the thought of him serving as a go-between for Prince Philippe and the infanta, Ricomana? Could anyone be more delightful than the forthright Plaerdemavida (whose name translates literally as "Pleasure-of-My-Life") — surely one of the best delineated characters in any literature? Or anyone more villainous than the odious Widow Repose — a figure stamped indelibly on our minds, wearing her ridiculous red stockings and hat in the bath?  If Don Quixote's Dulcinea did not exist until she took form in his (or in Cervantes') mind, or the windmill that was a giant, or the Cave of Montesinos, they have now come into existence in the mind of every reader of that novel. So may Tirant and his men, the princess, the emperor, Plaerdemavida, also come to life alongside the gentle and not so gentle folk of Cervantes, in every reader's imagination. Let us leave the reader with these final words from the pen of Cervantes about Tirant lo Blanc: "Take him home and read him, and you will see that what I have said of him is true.”

Tales of the White Knight: Tirant lo Blanc

D'galba, Marti Johan

Action & Adventure

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

JOANOT MARTORELL, de família originaria de Gandía, va náixer a València al voltant de 1413. Documents de 1433 l´esmenten com a cavaller i juntament amb el seu pare i germà formà part de la companyia reial d´Alfons el Magnànim aue lluità a la batalla naval de Ponça. Fou cunyat d´Ausiàs March, però les seves relacions van ser més bé complicades. En tant que cavaller portà una vida agitada i implicada amb les lluites del seu temps, les quals el conduiren a fer llargues estades a Anglaterra, Portugal i Italia. Arruïnat, es veu obligat a vendre les seves propietats. L'any 1452 ostenta el càrrec de cambrer reial d'Alfons el Magnànim, i més tard els càrrecs de trinxador i d'escrivà del príncep Carles de Viana. Sembla ser qu´a Anglaterra trobà una antiga llegenda, “Guillem de Varoich”, que constituirà la font d´inspiració del “Tirant lo Blanch”, la seva obra única que començarà en 1460 i que, desprès de la mort de l´escriptor (1468), l´acabarà Joan de Galbà i fou publicada en 1490. L´obra presenta una diferència en relació a la resta de les novel.les cavalleresques i és l´absència quasi total d´elements meravellosos, la qual cosa la salvarà de la cremà perpetrada pel capellà i el barber en la biblioteca de “Don Quijote”. Vargas Llosa, en l´article “Viejos y nuevos libros de caballerías”, escriu: “La historia de los Buendía (familia protagonista de “Cien años de soledad” de García Márquez), como la de “Amadís” o la de “Tirant lo Blanch”, transcurre simultáneamente en varios órdenes de la realidad: el individual y el colectivo, el legendario y el histórico, el social y el psicológico, el cotidiano y el mítico, el objetivo y el subjetivo.”

Tirant lo Blanch: Volum I (Catalan Edition)

Tirant le Blanc

Literary

Gallimard]

Der Roman vom Weißen Ritter: Roman in drei Bänden

FISCHER, S.

Tirante el Blanco

Genre Fiction

Booket

<p>Antiguamente, el orden militar era tenido en tanta reverencia, que no era galardonado con el honor de caballería más que el más fuerte, el más animoso, el más prudente y el más experto en el ejercicio de las armas. La fortaleza corporal y el coraje se tienen que ejercitar con sabiduría, porque, así como algunas veces unos pocos han obtenido victoria sobre muchos a causa de la prudencia y las buenas artes de los batalladores, en otras ocasiones la sabiduría y la astucia de los caballeros han sido suficientes para vencer la fuerza de los enemigos. Y por esta razón los antiguos ordenaban justas y torneos y educaban a los infantes en el ejercicio militar, para que en las batallas fuesen fuertes y animosos y para que no sintiesen terror ante la visión de los enemigos. La dignidad militar tiene que ser premiada, porque sin ella los reinos y las ciudades no podrían permanecer en paz, según dice el glorioso san Lucas en su evangelio. Merecedor es, pues, el virtuoso y valiente caballero, de honor y de gloria, y su fama no tiene que ser olvidada con el paso de los días. Y como entre los otros insignes caballeros de gloriosa memoria sobresale el valentísimo Tirante el Blanco, del cual hace especial conmemoración el presente libro, es necesario hacer una singular y presente mención individual, a causa de su honor y de sus grandísimas virtudes y caballerías, que se recitan en las siguientes historias.</p>

Tirante el Blanco (Narrativa) (Spanish Edition)

Editorial Verbum

Tirant lo Blanc. Episodis amorosos: Inclou recurs digital

Educaula

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