Next Friday, March 28 at 7:30 p.m. the novel ISLES. The ordeal of blood by the Lanzarote writer José Luis García Pérez will be presented at the Teatro de Teguise. This is his fourth historical novel, and in this case the work covers a long historical period that goes from 1377 to 1450, and that is why the author's literary effort has focused a lot on making a literary story that does not seem like a historical chronicle, but a novel with necessary ellipses in time.
The novel is inspired by the beginning of Canary Island history, the written one at least, something that we can place in the chronicles of Le Canarien that are made in these first moments by the Norman conquerors.
The first chapters of the work are dedicated to the aboriginal world before the conquest and in particular to the well-known legend-history of Princess Ico and the atavistic test to which she was subjected. But the most substantial part of the novel begins in 1402 with the arrival of Jean de Bethencourt and Gadifer de la Salle to Lanzarote, and extends through the subsequent adventures of the French in the islands, especially in those in which they left their mark; Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, El Hierro and part of La Gomera. The rest of the islands are treated in the novel as difficult dreams to achieve by the French, and it would be, in fact, the Castilian crown that, later, could face their conquest with sufficient means.
After Gadifer left the islands first, and Jean de Bethencourt, later, Maciot de Bethencourt remains in charge of the conquest, or rather of the administration of what was conquered, directed remotely by his uncle Jean through maritime dispatches, and it is shortly after his abandonment of the islands when the novel ends.
The novel fully enters the birth of modern Canary Islands, its reappearance after a thousand years of furtive encounters with Romans and Phoenicians, and according to the author, "it is the most complex literary project he has had to date."