Hiro Protagonist

Monday night I finished reading Arturo Perez-Reverte's "The Fencing Master." It was fantastic. While reading I decided to keep a list of the literature and writers referenced within the book.

- Dumas, Hugo & Balzac. Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives.' Homer (Pg. 39)
- Novalis's 'Heinrich von Ofterdingen.' Chateaubriand & Vigny
- edition in quarto 'Memoriale de Sainte Helene'(Pg. 59)
- Talleyrand's 'Memoirs' (Pg. 72)
- Cervantes - Man from la Mancha (Pg. 79)
- "...volume of short poems by Compoamor..."(Pg. 117)
- "If you need nothing from anyone, then you're free like Diogenes in his barrel." (Pg. 118)
- "...a Dumas melodrama."(Pg. 129)
- "...like a character out of a play by Tomayo y Baus."(Pg. 129)
- Heinrich von Ofterdingen w/ a passage(Pg. 139)
- Rousseau & Voltaire (Pg. 172)
- Ficticious- Carceles - "All For One; or 'The Sovereign People' " - ". . .stormy drama in free verse plagiarized from Lope de Vega's "Fuenteovejuna.' " (Pg. 191)

- Plus, there is a passage only identified as a "French novel" on page 209:
"Even if the whole world turned aginst him, as long as his soul remained calm, he would feel not a moment's saddness."
-Another passage, this one completely unidentified, is on page 210:
"Any moral character is closely bound up with scenes of autumn: those leaves that fall like our hours, those clouds that flee like our illusions, that grows colder like our life, all weave secret bonds with our fate. . ."