by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester · Planeta. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408461180
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«La isla de los jacintos cortados» is a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, published by Planeta in hardback (336 pages, in Spanish).
In the university community of the island of Gorgona, Ariadna, a Greek student, crosses paths with her two professors, the Frenchman Claire and the Spanish narrator. The novel combines reality, fantasy, irony and humour to reflect on truth and appearance, history and fiction, and the relationship between author and work.
The novel was originally published in 1980 and is the third instalment of Gonzalo Torrente Ballester's fantastic trilogy.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction interested in the interplay between reality and fiction and in stories set in a university environment.
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester was a Spanish writer associated with the Generation of '36 movement.
