Defeated. Barcelona, 1714
19.99 €
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Defeated. Barcelona, 1714
19.99 €
In Europe, the War of the Spanish Succession is underway, a bloody tragedy that will deprive Catalonia of all independence and redraw the map of Europe for centuries to come. Barcelonese Marti Suviria is a conscientious crook, an involuntary traitor and a cowardly hero, the last student of the great French fortification theorist Sebastian de Vauban, a member of the unique brotherhood of military engineers - on the battlefield, in the trenches, in captivity, in the besieged Barcelona, in his dying house, he is constantly looking for the only Word that will explain and justify his work and all his life.
Albert Sanchez Pignol is one of the greatest stars of Catalan literature; he is not inferior to Jaume Cabre in originality and popularity. His “Defeated”, an adventurous novel, a military epic and a high tragedy, in part refers to Grimmelshausen’s “Simplicissimus” and the “Adventures of the Brave Soldier Schweik” by Jaroslav Hasek, Joseph Conrad’s “Duels” and George MacDonald Fraser’s “Notes of the Flashman”, with which the author was particularly inspired. In Spain, the novel sold more than 250,000 copies, was translated into 16 languages, caused unbridled enthusiasm, provoked fierce controversy, received the newspaper El Periódico award for the best novel of 2012, became the basis for the comic book and in addition inspired a series of concerts of Baroque music (this is rare with modern novels). In "Defeated" will be heroism and cowardice, perseverance and defeat, fruitless searches and dazzling revelations, a sarcastic grin and silent tenderness. Any war can only kill and maim, and as a belated and decidedly disproportionate consolation, it can only give us “War and Peace”, and “Defeated” is “War and Peace” of Barcelona.
Albert Sanchez Pignol is one of the greatest stars of Catalan literature; he is not inferior to Jaume Cabre in originality and popularity. His “Defeated”, an adventurous novel, a military epic and a high tragedy, in part refers to Grimmelshausen’s “Simplicissimus” and the “Adventures of the Brave Soldier Schweik” by Jaroslav Hasek, Joseph Conrad’s “Duels” and George MacDonald Fraser’s “Notes of the Flashman”, with which the author was particularly inspired. In Spain, the novel sold more than 250,000 copies, was translated into 16 languages, caused unbridled enthusiasm, provoked fierce controversy, received the newspaper El Periódico award for the best novel of 2012, became the basis for the comic book and in addition inspired a series of concerts of Baroque music (this is rare with modern novels). In "Defeated" will be heroism and cowardice, perseverance and defeat, fruitless searches and dazzling revelations, a sarcastic grin and silent tenderness. Any war can only kill and maim, and as a belated and decidedly disproportionate consolation, it can only give us “War and Peace”, and “Defeated” is “War and Peace” of Barcelona.
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