Zayde a Spanish romance / [electronic resource] :
Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de Lafayette ; edited and translated by Nicholas D. Paige.
- University of Chicago Press, 2006.
- 1 online resource (xxix, 210 p.) : ill., map.
- The other voice in early modern Europe .
- Other voice in early modern Europe. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Standing at the critical juncture between traditional romance and early novelistic realism, Zayde is both the swan song of a literary tradition nearly two thousand years old and a harbinger of the modern psychological novel. Zayde unfolds during the long medieval struggle between Christians and Muslims for control of the Iberian Peninsula; Madame de Lafayette (1634-93) takes the reader on a Mediterranean tour typical of classical and seventeenth-century romances?from Catalonia to Cyprus and back again?with battles, prophecies, and shipwrecks dotting the crisscrossed paths of the book?s noble l.