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 has compared the work of...
Nueva edici n conmemorativa de la Real Academia Espa ola y la Asociaci n de Academias de la Lengua Espa ola para celebrar el centenario de Camilo Jos Cela, uno de los escritores espa oles m s importantes del siglo XX.
Considerada una de las mejores novelas espa olas...
-- The Hive presents a panoramic view of the degradation and sufferings of the lower-middle class in post-civil war Spain. Readers are introduced to over a hundred characters through a series of starkly rendered interlocking vignettes. Filled with violence, hunger, and compassion,...
In this extraordinary novel of life in Madrid after the Spanish Civil War, Camilo Jose Cela conveys with startling immediacy not only the brutality but also the vitality of life in the city.?His style-economical but vivid-carries the reader through a series of vignettes, following...