by Vladimir Bartol · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439584216
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«Alamut» is the historical novel by Vladimir Bartol, published by Planeta-De Agostini in hardback (451 pages, in Spanish).
In the fortress of Alamut, in eleventh-century Persia, Hasan ibn Sabbah trains young hashashins —whose name gave rise to the word 'assassin'— to dominate the region. Through the illusion of a paradise of wine, hashish and women, he convinces them that death opens the gates of Eden. The novel follows two of these followers whose faith in the leader begins to waver.
The work was originally written in 1938 as an allegory of Mussolini's fascism. The Spanish edition includes commentary by Kenizé Mourad and translation by Mauricio Waczec and Slavica Membrado Boursac.
A cult work since the 1960s and revalued after the 9/11 attacks, it will appeal to readers of historical fiction and twentieth-century classics.
Vladimir Bartol was a writer from the Slovene minority in Italy. He is best known for his 1938 novel Alamut, the most popular work of Slovene literature around the world, which has been translated into numerous languages.
