Los Pardaillan. Tomo VI. El Tesoro de Fausta. La Prisionera. La Casa Misteriosa.

Les Pardaillan #6

by Michel Zévaco

Los relatos de Miguel Zévaco, último autor notable de su género, han sobrevivido a muchas de las historias existentes de capa y espada porque supo crear un personaje suficientemente original para interesar a los lectores de todos los tiempos: Pardaillan.
En 1902 salió a la luz el primer Pardaillan de una larga serie, héroe valiente y presto para defender al oprimido. Mediante este caballero, su autor expuso sus tesis humanistas, así como sus opiniones republicanas y anticlericales.
El éxito de la serie consiste en la manera en que Zévaco, con una narrativa ligera y muy bien lograda, transmite las preocupaciones políticas que le acercaron al socialismo y anarquismo franceses y que habrían de acompañarle siempre, inclusive so pena de ocasionarle la mengua en su libertad al expresarlas.

Genres: Historical Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Adventure, Novels, Roman

237 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1913

About the author

Michel Zevaco (also written as Zévaco) was a French journalist, novelist, publisher, film director, and anti-clerical as well as anarchist activist.

Michel Zevaco founded the anarchist weekly magazine Gueux (French, Beggars) on March 27, 1892. A month later he was jailed for 6 months and fined for praising Pini and Ravachol. Afterwards he wrote for Sébastien Faure's journal, Libertaire, as well as for the anarchist newspaper La Renaissance. In 1898, he edited l'Anticlérical, for the Anticlerical League of France and was involved in supporting Alfred Dreyfus during the eponymous Dreyfus Affair.

Zevaco's famous cloak and dagger novels Les Pardaillan, began to be serialized in the daily newspapers in 1900 to great popular success. Yet he is today quite unknown, in spite of the new interest aroused by popular literature.

A former school teacher, then an officer, he became a militant journalist, who wrote for various revolutionary newspapers, of anarchist tendency. He became famous mainly for the part he played in the anti-clerical struggles at the end of the 19th century. Then, as a writer of serial novels, he published works which had a great success in Jean Jaurès' daily La Petite République, and he became appointed serial writer for Le Matin from 1906 to his death.

His already well-established popularity was made even greater by his promising beginnings as a film-director in 1917. His novels first published by Fayard and Tallandier were republished several times and adapted for the screen; the latest paperback edition only gives a mutilated version, and is impaired by many cuts.

He is remembered as the author of Les Pardaillan, Le Capitan, Borgia, Buridan, L'Héroïne, l'Hôtel Saint Pol and Nostradamus, his most famous historical novels, but also published novels related to his times. Some of his serials have not yet been published

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Reviews

[Mustafa Doğru]

Pardayan anlatısı bu kitapta iyice mitolojik bir karakter haline bürünmeye başlıyor. En zor durumlardan en akıl almaz tuzaklardan tekrar tekrar kurtulmayı başaran baş karakterimizi okuyucuyu yine şaşırtmıyor. Beşinci cildin başında başlayan olaylar bu kitapta bir son buluyor fakat dördüncü ciltte bir kaç sayfada anlatılıp geçilen Pardayan'nın oğluyla olacak olan maceranın da tohumları atılıyor.

In this book, the Pardayan narrative begins to take on a distinctly mythological character. Our protagonist, who repeatedly manages to escape the most difficult situations and the most unbelievable traps, once again surprises the reader. The events that began at the start of the fifth volume come to an end in this book, but the seeds of an adventure involving Pardayan's son, briefly mentioned in a few pages of the fourth volume, are also sown here.

[Caterina]

Pardaillan, elçilik göreviyle gittiği İspanya'da Chico, Juana, Giralda ve Don Cesar ile kesişen yolunda ilerlemeye çalışırken Fausta her zamanki gibi ondan nefret ediyor.

Bu kitabı diğerlerinden farklı kılan Cervantes'e çakılan selamdı.

Her zamanki gibi keyifliydi.

Okusanız seversiniz bence.

[Cantigone]

Pardayan serisinden okuduğum en güzel kitaplardandı. Bu sefer kahraman şövalyemiz İspanya’da Kral ve Engizisyon’a ve tabii ki ezeli düşmanı Fausta’ya karşı savaşıyor. Cervantes’in de bir kahraman olarak yer aldığı bu kitap, 5.Kitap olan Fausta’nın Entrikalarının devamı aslında.

[Cristina Pana]

Un pic mai putina ata alba la cusaturi si un pic mai acaparanta.
Ok, sa trec la urmatorul volum.

[Isabelle]

Heureux soyez vous d'être arrivé(e)s jusque là. Ce livre 6 est extraordinaire d'intelligence, d'action avec un suspense qui n'a rien à envier aux meilleurs des auteurs du thème. La partie que voilà est différente dans un rythme différent des 5 précédents ; de quoi nous ébouriffer pour continuer vers le livre 7. Petite mise en garde, quand même : si j'estime que Les Pardaillan ont un psychologie que l'on devrait voir déployer dans les cours de français de 4ème et des classes qui suivent, ce livre-là connaît une partie que je ne ferais pas lire aux moins de 16 ans. Alors, lisez ces livres-ci, mais accompagné(e)spour les plus jeunes. Extraordinaire, je disais. Ce cycle mérite d'être connu : il fait du bien à notre esprit. J'ai bien écrit "esprit", oui. De toutes les manières, foi de lectrice.