La Maga de la Montaña / Los Desposorios de Triermain

by Jules Antoine David (Ghostwriter), Walter Scott (Attributed)

Novela histórica que aborda una parte de los sucesos acaecidos en Escocia tras el exilio de la realeza Estuarda. Refleja mediante una serie de personajes el sentir del pueblo escoces y la preparación del levantamiento jacobita de 1745.

184 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1844

Reviews

[Miguel Blanco Herreros · Rating 3 out of 5]

La novela no está mal. Se lee con relativa facilidad y, aunque no destaca por nada en concreto, tampoco se puede decir que esté mal escrita. Sin embargo, lo que la hará inolvidable para mí es ser una obra que empecé a leer pensando que era de Walter Scott (como señalaba mi edición y todas las que se han hecho desde 1844) para terminar descubriendo que en realidad es una falsa atribución escrita por el francés Jules A. David. Al parecer el nombre de Scott vendía más y le adjudicaron la autoría, incluyendo una historia rocambolesca sobre un abate benedictino que habría recibido el manuscrito del mismísimo autor escocés, debido a una larga amistad. Nada más lejos de la realidad, pero en cualquier caso la novela se deja leer y copia bastante bien el estilo narrativo de Scott. Y me ha regalado una mini-investigación histórica sobre falsas autorías en la literatura del siglo XIX.

[Fonch · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ladies and gentlemen, we now return to the order, which I had proposed, and warned that my next review will be Thomas Tryon's interesting, and complex"The Other" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... _search-true although there has been a change of plans. Before writing the interesting review of"The Other" I have spoken with a Polish friend of mine, who would write the review of"Against the Tide" of the very interesting Elizabeth Camden. It's just that and I apologize if anyone thinks badly of me. There are several things I can't resist, and it's women and Poland, which is my favorite country along with Japan. A Dutch social democratic politician released some denigional statements, he could label them racist, and very misogynistic. Saying that the economic crisis had reached Spain. Because we spent our money on spirits and women. I don't know what part of your mind is going to be about spirits, you let me discuss it with John Ford, and With G.K. Chesterton https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... as to whether we spend a lot of money on women. I believe, not enough, he considered that the best investment is to spend the money on wives, sisters, cousins, and friends. Already in his immense wisdom the brilliant Galician polygraph and writer Julio Camba came to this conclusion https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show.... Spain has always been gallant and generous to women, and it is logical that I agree to this request, and not only women, any user can ask me to write the review of the book that I want him to write. I told Tim Vicary that https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... years ago, I just hope, I haven't forgotten the argument. Having said that, I begin with the criticism of this book. I was supposed to read it last year, but time was on me, and my vacation in Mojados ended, so I had to wait this summer, so I could read it. My story with Sir Walter Scott is very long I am a lover of his "Ivanhoe" and from there I became an admirer of the Templars (although this passion referred, as I said in my review of the "Crusades" https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... if they are still interested in the Knights of the Temple of Solomon encouraged them to read this book by Piers Paul Read. The best English Catholic writer today https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... and now that there's a very good publishing house called The Book Aticodeloslibros.com/index.php I'm thinking of acquiring a book by Thomas Asbridge on the https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... crusades and on the fall of the Eastern Templars by Dan Jones https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... although I don't know if they'll get over that of Piers Paul Read https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...) and I also loved the Jews. Maybe he didn't so agree with his vision of Saladin in the "Talisman" worst novel, and worst movie, and look like it has to be bad, to fail having George Sanders, and Rex Harrison as actors. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... yet there was a novel by Sir Walter Scott that I also really liked "Quentin Durward" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... set in the France of Louis XI, and Charles the Fearless. I believe that I will never forget the evil Boar of the Ardennes, nor Frederick Leslie (by the way I never found his novel of Charles the Fearless and look that I was looking for her, because it was the one that inspired Leopold von Ranke https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , to create the story. If Walter Scott was as decisive in transforming history into a university discipline, as were Leopold von Ranke, and Giovanni Battista Vico https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... . Scott despite to his anachronisms (we forgive him) had a trait. His novel could be slow, sometimes even boring, but as he accelerated them, and he ended them well. It's one of the best novel finalizers I've ever read. Yet there was a moment when it already seemed that Walter Scott was going to lose my interest, and become an entertaining writer, and nothing more, but he must have something Hobbit, because you read his novels, and they still surprise you. This happened to me with his novel "The Pirate" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6... this novel that told the conflict between Norse, and Scottish a mixture of Ivanhoe, and the summer of the red wolf https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9... (by the way it is the first novel in which a Mordaunt would then steal it from Dumas, who would use him as a villain in his magnificent "20 years later" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7... ) this novel I liked because it was talked about St Magnus (whose story has brilliantly novelized writer Susan Peek https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... and I'll read very soon) there was also talk of Dryden https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... I think it was C.S. Lewis who said that the best Walter Scott was the one who wrote about Scotland, and the rest of his novels did not like it. You've shown it to me here. These two books actually have a valuation of 3.5. It is a story set in the eighteenth century on the eve of the outbreak of the second Jacobite wars. This story set in 18th-century Scotland has much in common with Cinderella (we recommend Karen Ullo's wonderful novel "Cinder Allia https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... . The leader of a Thane goes mad, and is incapacitated, and it is his ambitious second wife, who rules, as her stepdaughter can't stand her, she runs away. But the interest of the novel is to analyze how the situation was, and it is to sing the glories of the defeated. Something you say today is not very fashionable. He has never gone more with the victors, and with the dominant thought, and have never betrayed more the loss-making causes those for which he deserves to fight for a plain and simple standard "Love Your Neighbor" on this subject I have already spoken in my review of J.K. Rowling. Apart from the history of Cinderella, and the subject of the political situation. Since it is not known which party the Scottish Lords will take, which precisely, to fight for Bonnie Prince Charles needs to be led by the nobleman who is insane. But the lord's second wife has other plans, as he better measures in George II's England with the Hanovers. Despite being very critical of Catholicism Scott treats him very well (Walter Scott had a great admirer Pope Albino Luciani John Paul I, who dedicated to him a letter in this wonderful book called "The Most Holy Lords" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... despite being Protestant Scott was the favorite writer of Catholics, and of the 19th-century Spanish conservatism, who wanted to write a novel had Sir Walter Scott as a spjo. The most beneficial characters are Catholic, and Jacobites. Perhaps one of the best moments of the novels is the contrast between Dick of noble ideals, but of somewhat counter-made body, it almost seems the incarnation of the other Dick, Richard III who has bequeathed to us the black legend of the Tudors, and his adoptive uncle a faithful to George II , but not very radical. The evolution of this character is the most interesting thing about the novel. There are also fights, a magician like Ulla Troil, or Urgfried, or Ulrica. . As in any romantic and gothic novel a character will discover his true identity. The bad guys are fascinating with that calculating stepmother, her envious daughter the ugly Love. The suitor, who woos the protagonist. The ending is not predictable less exciting. I believe, the best thing about this story is the Jacobite spirit, which permeates it, and which Was attached to by Walter Scott. The least is the result. To which I can only describe as "Life is not always fair" as William Goldman, that cynic with a romantic heart in his wonderful "The Princess Bride" said https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... Yet it is better to die on its feet than to live on its knees, and despite the failure of its cause. It was worth trying. History does not always reward with equity the noblest, the most righteous, virtuous, and the good, but their actions do not fall into a broken bag. As G.K. Chesterton says, "There is nothing closer to paradise than winning a loss battle beforehand." The Desposorios of Trier Main is an anthology of poems, which narrates as Trier Main undoes a spell, and can break an enchantment to which a daughter of King Arthur cursed by Merlin was subjected. Apart from this heterodox version of the arturic myth. Scott shows him to be a correct lyric, and his poetry is very enjoyable. I look forward to continuing to enjoy this Scottish bard and its stories for many decades, and I hope that goodreads users will also be encouraged to read to it
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Damas y caballeros ahora volvemos al orden, que había propuesto, y avisó de que mi siguiente crítica será la interesante, y compleja “El otro” de Thomas Tryon https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... aunque ha habido un cambio de planes. Antes de escribir la interesante crítica de “El otro” he apalabrado con una amiga mía polaca, que escribiría la crítica de “Contra la marea” de la interesantísima Elizabeth Camden. Es que y pido disculpas si alguien piensa mal de mí. Hay varias cosas a las que no me puedo resistir, y es a las mujeres y a Polonia, que es mi país favorito junto con Japón. Un político socialdemócrata holandés soltó unas declaraciones denigratorias podría tildarlas como racistas, y muy misóginas. Diciendo que la crisis económica había llegado a España. Porque nos gastábamos el dinero en bebidas espirituosas y en mujeres. No sé qué parte de razón tendrá este señor en cuanto a las bebidas espirituosas dejó que lo discuta con John Ford, y con G.K. Chesterton https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... en cuanto a si gastamos mucho dinero en mujeres. Yo creo, que no lo suficiente, consideró que la mejor inversión es gastar el dinero en las esposas, hermanas, primas, y amigas. Ya en su inmensa sabiduría el brillante polígrafo y escritor gallego Julio Camba llegó a esta conclusión https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... . España siempre ha sido galante y generoso con las mujeres, y es lógica que acceda a esta petición, y no sólo las mujeres, cualquiera usuario me puede pedir que escriba la crítica del libro que quiera que escriba. Eso se lo dije a Tim Vicary https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... hace años, sólo espero, que no se me haya olvidado el argumento.
Dicho lo cual empiezo con la crítica de este libro. Se suponía, que iba a leerlo el año pasado, pero el tiempo se me echó encima, y mis vacaciones en Mojados terminaron, por lo que tuve que esperar a este verano, para poder leerla. Mi historia con Sir Walter Scott es muy larga yo soy un enamorado de su “Ivanhoe” y a partir de ahí me convertí en un admirador de los templarios (aunque esta pasión remitió, como dije en mi crítica de las “Cruzadas” https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... si de todas formas siguen interesados en los Caballeros del Templo de Salomón les animó a leer este libro de Piers Paul Read. El mejor escritor católico inglés actualmente https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... y ahora que hay una editorial muy buena llamada Ático de los Libros aticodeloslibros.com/index.php estoy pensando adquirir un libro de Thomas Asbridge sobre las cruzadas https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... y sobre la caída de los templarios este de Dan Jones https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... aunque no sé si superarán el de Piers Paul Read https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... ) y también me encantaron los judíos. Quizá no estaba tan de acuerdo con su visión de Saladino en el “Talismán” peor novela, y peor película, y mira que tiene que ser mala, para fracasar teniendo como actores a George Sanders, y a Rex Harrison. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... con todo hubo una novela de Sir Walter Scott que también me gustó muchísimo “Quentin Durward” https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... ambientada en la Francia de Luis XI, y Carlos el Temerario. Creo, que jamás olvidaré al malvado Jabalí de las Ardenas, ni a Federico Leslie (por cierto jamás encontré su novela de Carlos el Temerario y mira que la estuve buscando, porque fue la que inspiro a Leopold von Ranke https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , para crear la historia. Si Walter Scott fue tan decisivo en la transformación de la historia en una disciplina universitaria, como lo fueron Leopold von Ranke, y Giovanni Battista Vico https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... . Scott pese a sus anacronismos (se los perdonamos) tenía un rasgo. Su novela podía ser lenta, a veces hasta aburrida, pero como las aceleraba, y que bien las terminaba. Es uno de los mejores finalizadores de novela, que he leído. Con todo hubo un momento, en que ya parecía que Walter Scott iba a perder mi interés, y a convertirse en un escritor entretenido, y nada más, pero debe de tener algo de Hobbit, porque lees sus novelas, y aún te sorprenden. Esto me pasó con su novela “El pirata” https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6... esta novela que contaba el conflicto entre nórdicos, y escoceses una mezcla de Ivanhoe, y el verano del lobo rojo https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9... (por cierto es la primera novela en la que aparece un Mordaunt, luego se lo robaría Dumas, que lo utilizaría como villano en su magnífica “20 años después” https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7... ) esta novela me gustó porque se hablaba de San Magnus (cuya historia ha novelado brillantemente la escritora Susan Peek

[Beatriz Rosales · Rating 3 out of 5]

A pesar de que se duda que el autor de estas novelas sea Walter Scott expresaré que al leerlas en verdad te hace sentir en ese año de 1745, en esas frías montañas de Escocia y en ese ambiente misterioso previo al levantamiento Jacobita que terminó trágicamente para los sublevados. Una parte histórica y la otra fantasía total en la que se relatan las vidas de personajes tan maravillosos que logran enganchar un vericueto embrollo de amor, odio, rencores, verdades a medias y patriotismo. La segunda historia fué sorprendente al lograr liar al Legendario Rey Arturo, sus caballeros de la mesa redonda y la historia de la Bella durmiente, un cuento mágico , misterioso y agradable.

[Dora · Rating 3 out of 5]

Está bien

[Sergio Corchete]

Me pongo a leer a Walter Scott para entender lo que dice Lukács sobre la novela histórica y ahora me entero de que este libro no es de Walter Scott aunque todo el mundo se lo atribuya. Cojonudo. Las cartas de Pablo.

[Andreu Sanchez · Rating 3 out of 5]

5/10 me ha sorprendido para bien