In this second article dedicated to the figure of Cid, I review these 5 novels written on it. One is one biography de Martinez Diez and another is a proposal of travel along the roads he traveled, by José Manuel Grouting. Two others are historical novelsby José Luis Pen and Ricard Ibanez, and, finally, a novelty for September: that of Perez-Reverte.
Historic El Cid - Gonzalo Martinez Diez
This writer from Burgos, academic of the Royal Academy of History and numerary of the Fernán González Academy, wrote this ruplifting biography about the Cid. It's about a very complete study about him true noble Castilian. A biography of the figure of a medieval hero, without legends and poems, and with the shadows and lights of an XNUMXth century knight. It's based on historical testimonies who lived or could live with him.
The way of the Cid - Jose Manuel Lechado
This is one travel Guide, by bicycle or on horseback, although it can be done with other motorized means that, however, will prevent the traveler from appreciating the details well. And it is that everything is meticulously planned in the book. From the material what to wear like the drugs essential and the ways to orient yourself in each place if you go through the rural roads, which is what he advises. OR how and where to camp if the traveler decides on this option.
It also explains the gastronomy of each place and there is a brief review of each population. All following the routes and territories through which the Cid must have passed on his way to exile.
Sidi - A Border Story - Arturo Pérez-Reverte
It is the new title that the writer will publish in the Spanish-speaking world next September 18. Go back to historical novel and decides to go back to the so-called Century of the Crusades. It is a story where it tells the adventure of a warrior, forced into exile, will have to leave and travel with a host that respects and follows him.
A character created from the figure of the Cid, since no direct mention is made of him. The author also points out that This is not a historical novel about the knight and his exploitsBut the story of a man who becomes a leader. This is a snippet:
Rough in form, extraordinarily complex in instincts and intuitions, they were warriors and had never claimed to be anything else. Resigned to chance, fatalistic about life and death, they obeyed naturally without the imagination playing tricks on them.
my sidi - Ricard Ibáñez
The author chose El Cantar del Mío Cid and other lesser-known romances about him to tell a story that shows us what forgotten that we have our folklore and popular myths and heroes. And he mixes it all with a supernatural ingredient in the history of four women that overcome the barrier of death and achieve bring back from the other side the soul of the Cid.
But this one returns having lost all notion of who she was and they they should remind you what was his life: his childhood as a squire and his first adventures, his exploits as an ensign to the king, his battles, his victories and his disappointments. All because a great threat looms over the world.
El Cid - Jose Luis Corral
Un new approach to real history of the epic figure by means of Don Diego de Ubierna, a narrator who tells us his experience with el Cid and it shows us a man who dared to go beyond the limits established in his time, broke the rules and whose life was much more fascinating than tradition tells. Stand out as a much more humane view of the epic hero that more and better represents the spirit of the frontier and the ideal of the medieval knight.