Description:
Following the publication of Valencian Folktales (Routledge 2022), this second collection of his tales will help to consolidate work done on Valor in English, opening up both his fiction and the specificity of Valencian culture to Anglophone readers.
Review Quotes:
This second volume of Enric Valor's Valencian Folktales fully matches the first in psychological subtlety, mastery of narrative twist, impish humour, resonant passion, and nuanced human warmth. While their particular Valencian flavours are deliciously evident, their themes, arising out of oral tradition, resonate with a universal, archetypal authenticity.
Richard Berengarten
, English poet and Bye-Fellow, Downing College, Cambridge
This translation of Valor's folktales, depicting landscapes and ways of life through a language rich in expressivity, internationalizes Valencia's cultural patrimony. To make the Valorian folktales available in English is to recognize his work as a part of the European ethnopoetic tradition.
Verònica Cantó
, President, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua
There is nothing more powerful than a good story. Through the brilliant translation by Paul Scott Derrick and Maria-Lluïsa Gea-Valor, this book encompasses a trove of powerful folktales that open up a literary universe full of dream-like notes and practical teachings that lend voice to a culture's will to persevere.
Vicent Martines
, Professor of Medieval Catalan Literature and Romance Relations, and Translation Studies. ISIC-IVITRA, Universitat
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