When Martorell wrote his knightly novel half a millennium ago, Constantinople and the Eastern Roman Emperor had just fallen in the struggle against the Muslim overpowering. Martorell countered this bitter reality with a utopia and created the white knight. He was meant to unite the torn Christendom and triumph over the "infidels." On his campaign across France and Spain, he reaches Constantinople. But instead of fighting, the white knight falls under the yoke of love. Now he fights for the beautiful Karmesina. 'The White Knight' is magnificent: a portrayal of the morals of the time, a knightly novel with a code of honor and tournament rules, an erotic novel, and an excitingly amusing adventure. 'The Novel of the White Knight' is one of the first novels in Old Catalan and thus a very special contribution to the focus on Catalonia at the 2007 fair.