Desde su cárcel madrileña, en una carta a su amante Mimí la Garce, el rey Francisco I de Francia rememora la batalla en que fue derrotado y preso en Italia por las tropas de Carlos V. Un relato irreverente y muy divertido sobre la Batalla de Pavía de 1525. «Querida Mimí, mon amour: Unas veces se pierde y otras se deja de ganar. Aquí me tienes, voilá, de turista forzoso en Madrid. Como te lo cuento, oye. Quién me ha visto y quién me ve. Un Valois por parte de padre, nada menos, imagínate el cuadro, con mi prosapia, alojado forzoso en una torre que llaman de Los Lujanes, en Madrid, prisionero por la cara—by the face, que diría mi primo Enrique VIII—con ese cabroncete de Carlos, emperador de los alemanes y de los españoles y de la madre que los parió a todos, que asfixiado me tienen entre el norte y el sur, visitándome cada tarde para chotearse entre tapices gobelinos y mucho vuesamerced, primo, hermano, monarca francés y toda la parafernalia. "Estáis en vuestra casa, rey cristianísimo", dice el chuloputas, con un rintintín, o como se diga, que me quema la sangre azul hasta volverla negra, como si esto fuese otra cosa que una cochina mazmorra...» Nueva edición, ampliada y retocada en mayo de 2016, del relato de Arturo Pérez-Reverte. Ilustraciones de portada e interiores de Rubén del Rincón. Diseño y maquetación: Trestristestigres.com Edita: Zenda, zendalibros.com
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez, is a Spanish novelist and ex-journalist. He worked as a war reporter for twenty-one years (1973 - 1994). He started his journalistic career writing for the now-defunct newspaper Pueblo. Then, he jumped to news reporter for TVE, Spanish national channel. As a war journalist he traveled to several countries, covering many conflicts. He put this experience into his book 'Territorio Comanche', focusing on the years of Bosnian massacres. That was in 1994, but his debut as a fiction writer started in 1983, with 'El húsar', a historical novella inspired in the Napoleonic era. Although his debut was not quite successful, in 1988, with 'The Fencing Master', he put his name as a serious writer of historic novels. That was confirmed in 1996, when was published the first book of his Captain Alatriste saga, which has been his trademark. After this book, he could leave definitely journalism for focusing on his career as a fiction writer. This saga, that happens in the years of the Spanish golden age, has seen, for now, seven volumes, where Pérez-Reverte shows, from his particular point of view, historical events from Spanish history in the 16th century. Apart from these, he also penned another successful works like Dumas Club and Flanders Panel, titles that, among others, made Pérez-Reverte one of the most famous and bestseller authors of Spanish fiction of our era.
