Woe to the Vanquished
17 hrs. 58 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Albert Sánchez Piñol
Author
Albert Sánchez Piñol
Narrator
Stanislav Fedorchuk
Narrator
Stanislav Fedorchuk
Description
Independent Catalonia has ceased to exist: Barcelona has been taken, Bourbon soldiers prowl the streets, and those who defended the city face arrest. Barcelonan Martí Suviria is a conscientious rogue—by necessity a traitor and a hero born of cowardice— the last pupil of the great French master of fortification, Sébastien de Vauban, a member of a rare brotherhood of military engineers, a future caustic memoirist, and for now—an injured soldier who has lost everything—escapes in flight from Barcelona. But he will not reach his destination right away: for some, seven miles is no detour, and so Suviria’s journey from Catalonia to Vienna passes through South Carolina (where a new war awaits him, a brilliant assault on a city, an unexpected love, and almost certain death), and then through France (where his fate will become even more bizarre). And that’s not all: ahead lies a great reckoning for the sworn enemy and a journey to the farthest reaches of the world…
Albert Sánchez Piñol is an anthropologist and one of the most vivid and distinctive figures in Catalan literature. His novel “The Defeated” is the first book about Martí Suviria, combining adventure prose, a military epic, and high tragedy— it sold more than 250,000 copies in Spain, was translated into 16 languages, and won a prize from the newspaper El Periódico. “Woe to the Defeated” is a dazzling continuation of “The Defeated”: a picaresque saga in the spirit of “Gil Blas,” “Simplicissimus,” and “The Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk,” an epic tragic farce spanning European politics of the 18th century, and the story of a forced adventurer—a cynic and mocker who has lost his loved ones, his home, and his homeland, but has not forgotten how to laugh.
Albert Sánchez Piñol is an anthropologist and one of the most vivid and distinctive figures in Catalan literature. His novel “The Defeated” is the first book about Martí Suviria, combining adventure prose, a military epic, and high tragedy— it sold more than 250,000 copies in Spain, was translated into 16 languages, and won a prize from the newspaper El Periódico. “Woe to the Defeated” is a dazzling continuation of “The Defeated”: a picaresque saga in the spirit of “Gil Blas,” “Simplicissimus,” and “The Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk,” an epic tragic farce spanning European politics of the 18th century, and the story of a forced adventurer—a cynic and mocker who has lost his loved ones, his home, and his homeland, but has not forgotten how to laugh.
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