Anonymous
10 livros
- Barlaam and Ioasaph EnglishYou get a strange, patient medieval tale in which the sheltered prince Ioasaph learns about suffering through Barlaam’s parables, including the famous story of the man fleeing a unicorn. The theology is earnest and sometimes repetitive, but the stories have an uncanny, fable-like pull, especially if you enjoy books where a journey inward matters more than adventure.
- Beowulf EnglishYou get a spare, strange world of boasts, loyalty, feasts, and sudden violence, where Beowulf faces Grendel and later meets a dragon as an aging king. The alliterative verse can feel austere at first, but its stark images and sense of doom stay with you.
- Gudrun EnglishYou get a medieval epic with sea voyages, feuds, long separations, and a heroine whose endurance never makes her passive. Gudrun can feel episodic and ceremonious, but its attention to Hilde and Gudrun gives the old heroic machinery a surprisingly human pulse.
- Romancero selecto del Cid EspañolLos viejos romances del Cid, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar: poemas breves y cantados sobre su juventud, su disputa con el rey, su boda con Jimena y sus batallas. Son sencillos y rítmicos, el tipo de verso que la gente se sabía de memoria.
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight EnglishYou get a strange, wintry adventure where Gawain’s courtesy is tested as sharply as his courage, from the Green Knight’s beheading game to the unnerving hospitality of a country castle. The alliterative verse takes a little settling into, but its mix of menace, comedy, and moral unease lingers.
- The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes EnglishYou follow Lázaro from one hungry master to another, beginning with the blind man who teaches him that survival requires brains, nerve, and a flexible conscience. The episodes are brisk, funny, and often cruel, while his supposed success quietly exposes how little dignity society leaves the poor.
- The Nibelungenlied EnglishIf you think medieval epics are all shining knights, wait until Kriemhild spends twenty years planning her revenge and the last third becomes a slaughter in a burning hall. It's stark and cold-blooded and strangely modern about grudges, though the formal verse takes some settling into.
- The Pearl EnglishFair warning, this is the Victorian underground erotica magazine, not the Steinbeck. It's explicit, repetitive, and often genuinely ugly by modern standards, so it's really only worth your time as a historical curiosity, a peek at what respectable Victorians read in secret.
- Lázaro cuenta cómo creció sirviendo a una serie de amos: un ciego mendigo y cruel, un clérigo avaro, un escudero orgulloso y muerto de hambre. Es breve, astuta y divertida, la primera novela picaresca.