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."

Tirant Lo Blanc

Literature & Fiction

Martorell, Joanot

Joan de Galba, Marti

United States

Johns Hopkins University Press

This translation, by Ray La Fontaine, is the first English version in the five-hundred year history of Tirant lo Blanc. Accurate readable, and complete, it opens a window to a world of remarkable originality.

Tirant Lo Blanc: The Complete Translation- Translated from the Catalan by Ray La Fontaine (Catalan Studies)

Joanot Martorell

Ray La Fontaine

History & Criticism

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

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