Sidi: a border story is El Cid by Arturo Pérez-Reverte . It is the novel in which the Spanish writer brings us closer to his own legendary and historical hero his own medieval Castilian Spanish? warrior.
Nothing about homelands nothing about Reconquista
Pérez-Reverte tells. Arturo Pérez-Reverte neither writes History nor pretends to : he imagines interprets invents rewrites the legend and uses what History knows about a Castilian infanzón from the th century to tell us what he wants to believe was the rise to CXB Directory leadership of frontier warriors. which starred a small nobleman from Burgos during the time when what was miscalled the Reconquista for a long time took place . A word Reconquista that neither appears in his dazzling book nor is it expected crossed out after the great almost historiographic analysis that the Spanish novelist perpetrates close to the historian's craft as much as he can and wants but guided by deep knowledge of the best narrative techniques. of the plotters of the fictions that interest us as fiction readers.
“ Sidi is a fictional story where with the freedom of the novelist I combine history legend and imagination. … There are many Ruy Díaz in the Spanish tradition and this is mine.”
Everything seems to be born in the magnificent street of Pérez-Reverte in his childhood in his reading of El Cid de Zorrilla. It is not surprising that the novel opens with this quote:
José de Zorrilla The legend of the Cid
The protagonist of the novel published by Pérez-Reverte smelled like all his frontiersmen “of sweat metal and leather” and had literally grown up battling…
“in an extensive no man's land the border between Christian Castile and the Muslim kingdoms where some poor and desperate people—Christian settlers fleeing misery Mozarabic families fleeing from the south adventurers of various kinds—settled with small farms to plowing the land and raising some cattle with one hand on the farming implements and the other on the sword sleeping with one eye open and living while still alive with suspicion in the soul and Jesus Christ in the mouth.
發表於 2024-3-16 12:23:14
