El amor y la muerte | José Luis Corral | book new | sale

José Luis Corral

Edhasa : pocket | 2012

416 | 9h 55m

spanish | softcover | new | sale

19cm x 12,5cm | 320gr

In 1142, at the age of sixty-three, the philosopher, poet and musician Peter Abelard, the "Lion of Paris" died; Twenty-one years later, Heloise, his lover and wife, did it. They were buried together in a monastery in Champagne; Since 1817 their bodies have remained united in the same tomb in a Paris cemetery. Heloísa and Abelardo starred in the most dramatic and turbulent love story of all time. They loved each other intensely and like they had never known before. Abelard's castration, instigated by Heloise's uncle, ended his carnal passion, but not his love. Lovers and lovers in a time when love was a category foreign to the will of human beings, their passionate relationship has transcended their own personal tragedy. José Luis Corral, considered the master of the Spanish historical novel, recreates the human tragedy of these two extraordinary characters, who offered the world a new way of loving, in a novel immersed in the history, culture and philosophy of the Middle Ages, a splendorous era in which the first European universities have their origin and in which, for once, love triumphed in a Europe that was emerging from the darkness of the High Middle Ages to enter the bright and luminous period of the Gothic.