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Tirant lo Blanc
Tirant lo Blanc is the most important Catalan novel of all time and known by specialists worldwide. Emphasizes two aspects:
- The category of novel that is full of work: a chivalric novel, historical, erotic adventure ...
- Modernity, due to realism, which includes aspects still as surprising as, among others: the demystification, irony, eroticism or the use of different types of language as the characters and situations.
Author, and plot structure
Eisner was, as the protagonist of Tirant lo Blanc, a gentleman. As such, therefore, knew perfectly well that the world portrayed. Came from a family of great economic and social prestige, but that went bankrupt. Aixor led to travel (in England, Portugal, Naples ..) in successive attempts to redress the situation, but who nevertheless did not worsen. The letters are known to battle with knights several exchanges, especially with his cousin John Monpalau, because he had had relations with a sister Martorell, after breaking all the promises of marriage that he had done. Bregosa life, then, with economic problems, do not get to see Eisner published his novel Tirant lo Blanc, which was to write towards fifty years and was published posthumously in 1490 by Martí Joan de Galba, friend his long and thoughtful co-author of the work. Tirant can be divided into different parts based on the character stays in places as diverse as England, Sicily and Rhodes, the Greek Empire, North Africa and, again, the Greek Empire. Finally, the last chapter tells us about the events in the Greek Empire after the death of both protagonists, Tirant and Carmesina.