Tirant lo Blanc and Other Valencian Narrative

Tirant lo Blanc: A Deep Dive

Eisner: 15th century. Very academic. He is respected for his skill with weapons and his notions of military strategy. He moves deftly to the different courts of Europe (Portugal, Naples) and died in 1468. Reflected in his novel·la is his deepest desire. His biography is quite novelistic; his life went by as he pleaded for honor and possessions. In the end, he is left without possessions, and your sister married Ausiàs March. Tirant wrote at the end of his life, and the end of the pledge was to survive. Martí Joan de Galba published his work in 1490.

Tirant's Adventures

• Tirant in England (Representation of cavalry tournaments)
• Tirant in Sicily and Rhodes (A skillful admiral at sea)
• Tirant in the Greek Empire (Where he finds Carmesina)
• Tirant in North Africa (Converting Muslims)
• Epilogue (Marriage and death of Tirant)

Modern Interpretation: Presents his protagonist as a model of chivalric virtues, though not without flaws, wars, and fantastic captaincy. Treatment of love. The author includes all types of situations to characterize personatjes (fidelity, war, love...). Addresses a chivalrous ambition dyed with realism and an unknown life overflowing with joy. The complexity of the main personatjes breaks the outcome of the genre forever, towards a society that did not know how to evaluate horses.

Curial e Güelfa: An Enigma

Curial e Güelfa: 15th century. (3 parts) Takes place in different stages of Europe and North Africa. Gives the appearance of a true story, with the names of the characters referencing source country groupings. Authoring? An enigma.

Chivalry vs. Knightly Novel

Differences between the books of chivalry and the knightly novel·la of the 11th-15th centuries: The public is no longer only the nobility but also the burguesos, calling the heroes that sign, space, and know that concrete and feasible actions. The heroes are still knights but with features that bring them into real life, human personatjes with satisfactions and misfortunes.

Thematic Focus

Gentlemanly: (more realistic and detailed) with duels, battles... references to historic facts, the court... quotidian life-realist (Vision satirical and humorous, and without prejudice to the exhibition and description)

Jaume Roig's Espill

Jaume Roig: Espill or The Book of Women (4 books). The protagonist tells his life. A long run of verses written with the new medieval rhymed technique. Towards Synthesis? Maximum short, sometimes difficult to understand. Language with a fast pace and quickness. Women? A cluster of defects, as human evil is the culprit of all evil.