by Ana María Matute · Lumen Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788426412492
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«La torre vigía» is the chivalric novel by Ana María Matute, published by Lumen Editorial in paperback (200 pages, in Spanish).
Set in a mythical and sensual Middle Ages, it follows the formation of a young knight in a brutal world where heroism, superstition and barbarism coexist. Written in the first person, it weaves memory and longing with the learning of life: solitude, the difficulty of forming bonds and the passage from childhood to adolescence.
«La torre vigía» is the first instalment of the Medieval Trilogy. The work was originally published in 1971; this Lumen edition is from 1997.
Aimed at the general public and the university reader interested in literary fiction.
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.
