阿图洛·贝雷兹-雷维特

阿图罗·佩雷斯-雷维特 ( 西班牙语：Arturo Pérez-Reverte，1951年11月25日—）出生于卡塔赫纳，是一位西班牙的畅销作家，被誉为西班牙的国民作家。

雷维特曾于1973年至1994年期间担任新闻工作者，其中数年的时间更担任战地记者。其处女作《轻骑兵》（El húsar）于1986年推出以来，他其后出版过十六部长篇小说，以及一系列以埃拉崔队长为主角的历史冒险小说，其中部分作品更是被改编成电影。2003年，他当选为西班牙皇家学院院士。

著作

《击剑大师》（El maestro de esgrima）

《轻骑兵》（El húsar）

《大仲马俱乐部》（El Club Dumas），1999年被改编成电影《魔鬼手记》（The Ninth Gate）

《战争画师》（El pintor de batallas）

《海图迷踪》（La carta esferica）2007年改编成电影

《南方女王》（La reina del sur）

《法兰德斯棋盘》（La tabla de Flandes），1994年改编成电影

Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez (born 25 November 1951) is a Spanish novelist and journalist. He worked as a war correspondent for RTVE for 21 years (1973–1994). His first novel, El húsar, set in the Napoleonic Wars, was published in 1986.

He is well known outside Spain for his Captain Alatriste series of adventure novels, which have been translated into multiple languages. Since 2003 he has been a member of the Royal Spanish Academy.

Writing

Pérez-Reverte's novels are usually centered on one strongly defined character, and his plots move along swiftly, often featuring a narrator who is part of the story but apart from it. Most of his novels take place in Spain or around the Mediterranean. They often draw on numerous references to Spanish history, the colonial past, art and culture, ancient treasures, and the sea. The novels frequently deal with some of the major issues of modern Spain, such as drug trafficking or the relationship between religion and politics.

Often, Pérez-Reverte's novels have two plots running in parallel with little connection between them except for shared characters. For example, in The Club Dumas, the protagonist is searching the world for a lost book and keeps meeting people who parallel figures from Dumas's novels; in The Flanders Panel, a contemporary serial killer is juxtaposed with the mystery of a 500-year-old assassination.

In his often polemical newspaper columns and the main characters of his novels, Pérez-Reverte frequently expresses pessimism about human behaviour, shaped by his wartime experiences in such places as El Salvador, Croatia, or Bosnia. His views have also been shaped by his research for crime shows.

Throughout his career, and especially in its latter half, he has been noted for cultivating his trademark maverick, non-partisan, and, at times, abrasive persona. This has occasionally been a source of conflict with other journalists and writers. He originally refused to have his novels translated from the original Spanish to any language other than French. However, English translations were eventually published for some of his works, and most of his work is also available in Portuguese and Polish.

Pérez-Reverte was elected to seat T of the Real Academia Española on 23 January 2003; he took up his seat on 12 June the same year.

Themes such as the hero's tiredness, adventure, friendship, the journey as danger, death as the last journey, culture and memory as the only salvation that allows understanding reality, enduring pain and knowing the identity of the person and the world are frequent in his novels. The writer's view of existence in general is bleak. He hates Christian humanism and believes that pagan philosophy has a more accurate view of the world. Typical Revertian characters are the weary hero in hostile territory with a dark past and the femme fatale. Among the traits of the characters, moral ambiguity stands out.

In the articles he publishes every Sunday in XLSemanal magazine, he harshly criticizes postmodernity, political correctness, gender ideology, neoliberalism, neoconservatism, critical pedagogy, the European Union, inclusive language and woke thought.

He regrets that society is conditioned by the "whim of minorities" and that Europe, "the moral reference of the West", copies the values of society in the United States, which he considers "sick and hypocritical" . He asserts that political correctness has its origins in Anglo-Saxon puritanism.

In 1998, he published a very harsh article against global capitalism that prophesied the 2008 financial crisis. This article was very successful on the internet when the crisis happened in Spain.

An active user on Twitter, he has already created numerous controversies. In a controversial article he compared the European refugee crisis with the barbarian invasions that led to the fall of the Roman Empire. However, he was awarded the "Premio Don Quijote" of journalism.