Tirant Lo Blanc

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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.

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Joanot Martorell

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«'I swear to you, friend,' said the priest, 'in its style ('Tirant lo Blanc') is the best book in the world.'» (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote)
«(Tirant lo Blanc' includes) the chivalric, fantastic, historical, military, social, erotic, psychological: all of these matters simultaneously and none of them exclusively, no more or less than reality itself.» (Mario Vargas Llosa, Carta de batalla por Tirant lo Blanc)
«...the love interest of (Tirant) is perhaps the most sensual in Spanish literature.» (Otis Green, Spain and the Western Tradition: The Castilian Mind in Literature from El Cid to Calderón)
«La Fontaine's translation, the first into English of this Catalan masterpiece, is faithful, accurate, and true to the spirit of the original work. La Fontaine makes no concession to the modern sensibility, maintaining in sexual scenes the kind of modesty and simple insinuation which, notwithstanding Martorell's notorious daring, characterizes a medieval text.» (Josep Solà-Solé, Center for Catalan Studies, Catholic University of America
«La Fontaine's translation is complete and faithful in every detail to the original. Its clear and straightforward English makes a truly foreign culture, that of late medieval chivalry come alive...'Tirant lo Blanc', then is an introduction for the modern reader to a whole world, and the brilliance and clarity of la Fontaines's translation makes it almost painlessly available.» (Philip E. Isett, The Sunday Oklahoman)

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