- Fencing coaches, Fiction, Social life and customs, Novela española
A murder mystery in 1886 Madrid featuring an old fencing master who still teaches in the age of the pistol. He is famous for his unstoppable thrust and one day a beautiful woman arrives asking he teach it to her. The novel traces their relationship. By the author of The Flanders Panel.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 282
- Publisher
- Insel Verlag GmbH, Mondadori, Editorial Planeta, S. A.
- Editions
- 34
- Language
- Spanish, hrv, French, Russian
- ISBN
- 9788466319645
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“Much later, when Jaime Astarloa wanted to piece together the scattered fragments of the tragedy and tried to remember how it all began, the first image that came to his mind was of the marquis and of the gallery in the palace overlooking the Retiro Gardens, with the first heat of summer streaming in through the windows, accompanied by such brilliant sunlight that they had to squint against the dazzle on the polished guards of their foils.”
Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez (born 25 November 1951 in Cartagena) is a Spanish novelist and journalist. He worked as a war correspondent for RTVE and was a war correspondent for 21 years (1973–1994). His first novel, *El húsar*, set in the Napoleonic Wars, was released in 1986. He is well known outside Spain for his "Alatriste" series of novels. He is now a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, a position he has held since 12 June 2003. **Source**: [Arturo Pérez-Reverte](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_P%C3%A9rez-Reverte) on Wikipedia.
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