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382:– characters with unlikely or funny names such as Kirieleison de Montalbán, the presence of a merry widow, the fact that in the book knights eat, sleep, and die in their beds having made a will, and the title can be understood as "Tirant the Blank", lacking a major victory to put on his shield – the book is quite different from the typical
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Rosenthal, the first translator into
English of the masterpiece of the literature in Catalan language, written by the Valencians Joanot Martorell and Martí Joan de Galba, was boycotted in his first attempt to give a talk in the city
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The book has been translated into several languages including French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Finnish, German, Dutch, Swedish and
Chinese. Modern translations of the book into English include
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is an unusual chivalric novel in its naturalistic and satirical character, which also appears to have a strong autobiographic component. It tells the feats and adventures of Knight Tirant lo Blanc from
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heroes. Instead the main character is full of life and sensuous love, sarcasm, and human feelings. The work is filled with down to earth descriptions of daily life, prosaic and even bitter in nature.
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of the
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The plot of the 2006 film adaptation is based on the later part of the adventures of Tirant and events leading to his involvement in
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who has a series of adventures across Europe in his quest. He joins in knightly competitions in
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Tirant lo Blanc: An Analysis of its Transitional Styles by Suzanne S. Hintz
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Joanot Martorell; Martí Joan de Galba; David Rosenthal (1996).
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