The Saltador
7 hrs. 55 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Alexandre Dumas
Author
Alexandre Dumas
Narrator
Ilya Akintyev
Narrator
Ilya Akintyev
Description
“Salteador” is a historical novel (1854) set in Spain, as in some other novels. Dumas said: “There is one thing I cannot do: a book or drama about places I haven’t seen…” (which didn’t stop him from inventing travel tales about countries he’d never visited!). In his descriptions, he draws on observations made during his trip through Spain in 1845. In the background, he depicts Charles V at the age of 19 as he arrives in Castile. The Spanish receive him with some caution, and he feels it won’t be easy for him to establish his rule. It is true that, in the eyes of his own people, he looks too German (light hair, a reddish beard), that he spent all his youth in Flanders, and that his mother is insane! The characters whose stories intertwine with Charles V’s may not be as well developed as in Dumas’s best novels, but we quickly plunge into what’s happening; we feel the drama in the relationships between characters hinted at only in a few lines, a few words so perfectly chosen by the author.
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