The Wandering Unicorn
core novel 1965 The Wandering Unicorn
Record
| First published | 1965 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  ES |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.77 (325 ratings, collected 2026-10-28) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780425083864 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Melusine, the fairy of legend who is half woman and half serpent and the ancestress of the house of Lusignan, tells her own story from the twentieth century. As the family's resident fairy she watches unseen over its knights and ladies in the year 1174, when an angel is living in the castle's main tower and the Devil meddles everywhere. Then one night the Knight of the Unicorn arrives, bearing a lance made from a unicorn's horn, and Melusine, able to take other shapes, follows a young knight from demon-haunted France to the Holy Land of the Crusades, where her love for a mortal moves towards a tragic end.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Wandering Unicorn
- Series: The Wandering Unicorn core; position 1 of 1 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Manuel Mujica Lainez
Awards (verified)
- Mythopoeic Award (Adult Literature), 1986: finalist; For the English translation.
Notes
- Original title El unicornio (Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires, 1965). English translation by Mary Fitton, with an introduction by Jorge Luis Borges; English editions are dated 1982 to 1985 by different sources (Lester & Orpen Dennys, Taplinger, Berkley). ISBN of the Berkley paperback, a modern English edition, since the Spanish first edition predates the ISBN.
- From the series record (The Wandering Unicorn): Standalone novel.
Sources
- Wikipedia: The Wandering Unicorn
- Reader ratings: Manuel Mujica Lainez author page
- Book-edition listing: The Wandering Unicorn (Berkley, 1985)
- Reader reviews: The Wandering Unicorn
- Worlds Without End: The Wandering Unicorn
- ISBN-13 form of the recorded ISBN-10 0553378465 (same edition)
- sfadb: Mythopoeic Awards 1986
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