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Let’s set the scene: It’s 2004. You are a Spanish Literature student at the University of Barcelona or maybe a high schooler in Valencia. Your professor says: “Read chapters 1 to 250 of Tirant lo Blanc for Friday.”

The novel is a bridge between the epic and the realistic. It is The Song of Roland meets The Sopranos . No wonder the priest in Don Quixote saved it from the fire. Tirant Lo Blanc El Rincon Del Vago

While they burn other books as “heretical” or “stupid,” the priest famously says: Let’s set the scene: It’s 2004

This is the core of the book. Tirant is called to help the Emperor of Constantinople, whose lands are under threat from the Turks. He becomes the Megaduke and reorganizes the Byzantine army. Love and War: It is The Song of Roland meets The Sopranos

Reading Tirant lo Blanc today feels like reading a lost manuscript that predicted the next 500 years of literature. And for many of us, the only reason we know that is because we were lazy one night in 2005 and typed "Tirant Lo Blanc El Rincon Del Vago" into a search engine.