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Manuel Vicent
Aguirre the Magnificent

(Aguirre, el magnífico)

Literary Fiction

  • Published: 09/04/2015
  • ISBN: 9788420406299
  • 264 pages

Jesús Aguirre, the ‘Magnificient’, was a clergyman,a theologist and an editor; while he had all theattributes to be the black sheep of his society: theson of a single woman, a secularized -or rejected-priest and a homosexual. All these facts would havecondemned him to a civil death, if only he hadn’tclimbed to the highest Spanish aristocracy position:he married the Duchess of Alba.

About the author

Manuel Vicent has published the novels Tranvía a la Malvarrosa; Jardín de Villa Valeria; Pascua y naranjas; Son de Mar; La novia de Matisse; Cuerpos sucesivos; Verás el cielo abierto; León de ojos verdes; Aguirre, el magnífico, and El azar de la mujer rubia. He is also the author of the anthology Los mejores relatos and the collections of articles: Nadie muere la víspera; Las horas paganas; Viajes, fábulas y otras travesías; Póquer de ases, and Mitologías.