Jonathan Strange Y El Señor Norrel

Paperback, 800 pages

Spanish language

Published Jan. 30, 2006 by Salamandra.

ISBN:
978-84-7888-973-0
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Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Its premise is that magic once existed in England and has returned with two men: Gilbert Norrell and Jonathan Strange. Centred on the relationship between these two men, the novel investigates the nature of "Englishness" and the boundaries between reason and unreason, Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Dane, and Northern and Southern English cultural tropes/stereotypes. It has been described as a fantasy novel, an alternative history, and a historical novel. It inverts the Industrial Revolution conception of the North-South divide in England: in this book the North is romantic and magical, rather than rational and concrete.

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Subjects

  • Literary
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - General
  • Spanish: Adult Fiction
  • Fantasy - Historical