Results for "Cela, Camilo José"

Complete and uncensored in English for the very first time, a fragmented, daringly irreverent depiction of decadence and decay in Franco's Spain written by the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.The translator Anthony Kerrigan compared Camilo José Cela, the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize i... Read More about The Hive

Confined to a prison cell, thrice-murderer Pascual Duarte recounts his journey from a violent childhood to a life of pain and misfortune; juxtaposing tableaus of country poverty against scenes of bare brutality, Nobel laureate Camilo Jos eacute; Cela crafts a powerful meditation on cruelty and anomi... Read More about Family of Pascual Duarte (Dalkey Archive Essentials)

Awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature, Camilo Jos eacute; Cela has long been recognized as one of the preeminent Spanish writers of the twentieth century. Journey to the Alcarria is the best known of his vagabundajes, Cela's term for his books of travels, sketchbooks of regions or provinces. T... Read More about Journey to the Alcarria: Travels Through the Spanish Countryside (Winner of the Nobel Prize)

La primera novela de Camilo José Cela, hito en la literatura española de la posguerra.La familia de Pascual Duarte vio la luz en 1942 y tuvo un enorme  impacto en el panorama literario español del momento. Primer libro de  Camilo José Cela, supuso un valioso punto de partida para l... Read More about La familia de Pascual Duarte / The Family of Pascual Duarte

There are reasons to believe that Camilo Jose Cela knew perfectly well what he was doing as he wrote, between 1945 and 1950, La colmena , a novel that would counterweight the positive image the Franco regime was striving to build. In his foreword to the first edition Cela justifies and describes hi... Read More about La Colmena

Una nutrida selección de los mejores cuentos de Camilo José Cela, en un arco que abarca toda su carrera.   La bien ganada fortuna que, muy tempranamente, alcanzó Cela como novelista eclipsó su faceta como escritor de relatos, un arte que sin embargo nunca dejó de cultivar.   Más de una vez... Read More about Cuentos escogidos (Camilo José Cela)/ Selected Stories (Camilo José Cela)