Gonzalo Torrente Ballester

Gonzalo Torrente Ballester

Crónica del rey pasmado

Crónica del rey pasmado / Chronicle of the Astonished King

Novel , 1989

Alianza

Pages: 192

The action, set in the 17th century, revolves around the King's desire to see his wife naked and the commotion this wish causes at the Court of Madrid, among his subjects and the clergy. The scarcity of historical data, dates, and names is intentional, aiming not to confine the novel to the historical fiction formula that critics have generally assigned to it. This is a highly entertaining novel where sex and sin, so closely linked in traditional Catholic thought, become the subjects of parody.