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''El Unicorno'' translated in English as ''The Wandering Unicorn'' (1965) is a novel by the Argentinian author Manuel Mujica Láinez (1910–1964) in which the legend of Melusine is developed. Set in medieval France and the holy Land of the Crusades, Láinez’s novel is a mixture of fantasy and romance which is narrated from the perspective of the shape-changing Melusine. The events of the original legend of the medieval Romance are recollected early in the novel. Melusine, a fairy, marries Raimondin of Lusignan. However, when he spies her transformed as half-serpent, she flies away with frightful screams. Associated through marriage with the Lusignan family, Melusine appears over the centuries on the towers of their castle, wailing mournfully whenever a disaster or death in the family is imminent. In Láinez's novel Melusine embarks upon an adventure and unrequited love-affair with Aiol, the son of Ozil, a crusader knight who bequeaths a unicorn's lance to his son. Together the young knight Aiol and Melusine travel across Europe encountering monsters, angels and Knights Templar, before eventually arriving in war-torn Jerusalem of the Crusades era. Láinez’s novel of magic realism generates empathy towards Melusine as she recollects her adventures, before the love-affair between a mortal and an immortal concludes in a sad and tragic ending.〔''The Wandering Unicorn'' trans. Mary Fritton with introduction by Jorge Luis Borges. Berkley Books 1985〕 ==Editions== ''The Wandering Unicorn'' (1965) translated by Mary Fitton with an introduction by Jorge Luis Borges Berkley Books 1985 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Wandering Unicorn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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