by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester · Ediciones Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423310944
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«La isla de los jacintos cortados» is the novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, published by Ediciones Destino in paperback (325 pages, in Spanish).
In a university community on the island of Gorgona, a Greek student, Ariadna, becomes involved in a love triangle with two professors, one French and one Spanish. The story begins when one of them claims that Napoleon Bonaparte never existed. The novel combines reality, fantasy, irony and humour in a reflection on truth, history and fiction.
Subtitled «carta de amor con interpolaciones mágicas», it won the Premio Nacional de Literatura in 1981. It is the third instalment of Gonzalo Torrente Ballester's fantastic trilogy.
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester was a Spanish writer associated with the Generation of '36 movement.
