by Ana María Matute · Ediciones Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423343485
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«La torre vigía» is the chivalric novel by Ana María Matute, published by Ediciones Destino in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
In a Middle Ages of mythical and sensual atmosphere, a young knight narrates in the first person his formation: the discovery of the world, memory and the difficulty of bonding mark his passage to adulthood. Between heroism, superstition and barbarism, he moves in a universe of primitive instincts, with love, violence and nostalgia.
First instalment of Ana María Matute's medieval trilogy, in the Áncora & Delfín collection (volume 1027).
For readers of literary fiction and for those who enjoy novels set in the Middle Ages.
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.
