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Erec y Enide
Erec y Enide (Erec and Enide), a 2002 novel from Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, is in a certain way a re-reading of "Erec et Enide", first part of the arthurian cycle of Chrétien de Troyes.
The author analyzes three lonelinesses: the loneliness of Julio Matasanz, specialist in medieval literature; the loneliness of his wife, Madrona, and the loneliness of the couple formed by Myriam and Pedro (godson of Julio and Madrona).
wife Enide while on a quest to defeat a knight who had mistreated one of Guinevere's servants. The two fall in love and marry, but rumours spread that Erec no longer cares for knighthood or anything else besides his domestic life. Enide cries about these rumours, causing Erec to prove his abilities, both to himself and to his wife, through a test of Enide's love for him. He has her go on a long, tortuous trip with him where she is forbidden to speak to him. She breaks his