The Wandering Unicorn - Brossura

Lainez, Manuel Mujica

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0701126868 ISBN 13: 9780701126865

Casa editrice: Chatto & Windus, 1900

Riassunto

El Unicorno translated in English as The Wandering Unicorn (1965) is a novel by the Argentinian author Manuel Mujica Lįinez (1910-1964) in which the legend of Melusine is developed. Set in medieval France and Palestine of the Crusades, Lįinez's novel is a mixture of fantasy and romance which is narrated from the perspective of the shape-changing Melusine. The events of the original legend of the medieval Romance are recollected early in the novel. Melusine, a fairy, marries Raimondin of Lusignan. However, when he spies her transformed as half-serpent, she flies away with frightful screams. Associated through marriage with the Lusignan family, Melusine appears over the centuries on the towers of their castle, wailing mournfully whenever a disaster or death in the family is imminent. In Lįinez's novel Melusine embarks upon an adventure and unrequited love-affair with Aiol, the son of Ozil, a crusader knight who bequeaths a unicorn's lance to his son. Together the young knight Aiol and Melusine travel across Europe encountering monsters, angels and Knights Templar, before eventually arriving in war-torn Jerusalem of the Crusades era.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Chatto & Windus
• Data di pubblicazione: 1900
• ISBN 10: 0701126868
• ISBN 13: 9780701126865
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 333