by Ana María Matute · Ediciones Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423337231
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«La torre vigía» is the first novel in Ana María Matute's medieval trilogy, published by Ediciones Destino in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
The story is set in a mythical, sensual Middle Ages, where a young man narrates in the first person his childhood and adolescence until he is knighted. It is a peculiar book of chivalry about the discovery of the world, memory, longing and the difficulty of bonds, in an atmosphere dominated by heroism, superstition, love, violence and solitude.
Work originally published in 1971; this 2005 edition is no. 1027 of the Áncora & Delfín collection.
Recommended for readers of contemporary fiction and mythical medieval settings, interested in the formation of a young knight.
Ana María Matute Ausejo was a Spanish writer and member of the Real Academia Española. In 1959, she received the Premio Nadal for Primera memoria. The third woman to receive the Cervantes Prize for her literary oeuvre, she is considered one of the foremost novelists of the posguerra, the period immediately following the Spanish Civil War.
