The Family of Pascual Duarte
Author | : Camilo José Cela |
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Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1972 |
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ISBN | : 9780380011759 |
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Author | : Camilo José Cela |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1972 |
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ISBN | : 9780380011759 |
Author | : Camilo José Cela |
Publisher | : Dalkey Archive Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781564783592 |
This book reflects the crude reality of rural Spain in Franco's time. It is full of human power and rich in social insight. Cela writes with great detail, but still maintains simplicity.
Author | : Camilo Jose Cela |
Publisher | : Deep Vellum Publishing |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2023-11-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 162897530X |
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 José Cela crafts a powerful meditation on cruelty and anomie. The Family of Pascual Duarte follows his upbringing in the poor Spanish province of Extremadura to his eventual imprisonment—and impending death sentence. Death permeates Duarte’s world: his father’s grotesque death to rabies, his young brother’s drowning in an oil vat, and the loss of his children. But it is his wife’s sudden death that condemns him to the darkest path when, losing all faith and driven by blind revenge, he kills her souteneur. Now an alien to the world around him, Pascual Duarte resigns himself to his bloodied fate—yet never gives up his search for peace. Camilo José Cela has been recognized as one of the pioneers of Spanish literary realism, and his masterwork The Family of Pascual Duarte proves the power of his prose. The novel, which birthed the transgressive and groundbreaking tremendismo movement, roils with emotion and unflinching inhumanity, painting the Spanish countryside in bloodshed, eroticism, and an unshakeable feeling of grief. Blending the political with the personal with the philosophic, the result is an unparalleled exploration of the fraught relationship between man and society, and the past’s inescapable hold on the present.
Author | : Bright Summaries |
Publisher | : BrightSummaries.com |
Total Pages | : 29 |
Release | : 2018-05-31 |
Genre | : Study Aids |
ISBN | : 2808002327 |
Unlock the more straightforward side of The Family of Pascual Duarte with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Family of Pascual Duarte by Camilo José Cela, an uncompromisingly bleak portrayal of the violence that plagued rural Spain in the early 20th century. It tells the story of Pascual Duarte through an ingenious nested narrative which spans three unreliable narrators and several years, and describes the path that eventually led the protagonist to be sentenced to death for the murder of a nobleman. Camilo José Cela was a Spanish writer who won a number of prestigious awards, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1989. He was considered one of the most influential Spanish writers of the 20th century, and is generally credited with founding the tremendismo literary movement. He died in Madrid in 2002. Find out everything you need to know about The Family of Pascual Duarte in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!
Author | : Camilo José Cela |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1966 |
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Author | : Camilo José Cela |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2019-02-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0811225658 |
A New York Times Best Book of the Year Nobel Prize Laureate Mazurka for Two Dead Men, the culmination of Camilo José Cela‘s literary art, opens in 1936 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War: Lionheart Gamuzo is savagely murdered. In 1939, as the war ends, his brother avenges his death. For both deaths, the blind accordion player Gaudencio plays the same mazurka. Set in backward rural Galicia, Cela’s excellent novel portrays a reign of fools, and works like contrapuntal music, its themes calling and responding, alternately brutal, melancholy, funny, lyrical, and coarse.
Author | : Camilo José Cela |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Authors, Spanish |
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Author | : Camilo José Cela |
Publisher | : Atlantic Monthly Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780871133793 |
Awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature, Camilo José 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. The Alcarria is a territory in New Castile, northeast of Madrid, surrounding most of the Guadalajara province. The region is high, rocky, and dry, and is famous for its honey. Cela himself is "the traveler," an urban intellectual wandering from village to village, through farms and along country roads, in search of the Spanish character. Cela relishes his encounters with the simple, honest people of the Spanish countryside--the blushing maid in the tavern, the small-town shopkeeper with airs of grandeur lonely for companionship, the old peasant with his donkey who freely shares his bread and blanket with the stranger. These vignettes are narrated in a fresh, clear prose that is wonderfully evocative. As the New York Times wrote, Cela is "an outspoken observer of human life who built his reputation on portraying what he observed in a direct colloquial style."
Author | : Camilo José Cela |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780822311966 |
Widely regarded as one of the best works by the winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature, San Camilo, 1936 appears here for the first time in English translation. One of Spain's most popular writers, Camilo José Cela is recognized for his experiments with language and with difficult subject matter. In San Camilo, 1936, first published in 1969, these concerns converge in a fascinating narrative that is as challenging as it is rewarding, as troubling as it is compelling. A story of history as it happens, by turns confusing and startingly clear, echoing with news and rumors, defined by grand gestures and intimate pauses, the novel leads the reader into the ordinary life of extraordinary times. Beginning on the eve of the Spanish Civil War, San Camilo, 1936 follows a twenty-year-old student's attempts to sort out his private affairs (sex, money, career) in the midst of the turmoil overtaking his country. In vivid and richly textured prose that distinguishes Cela's work, the emotional reality of civil war takes on a vibrant immediacy that is humorous, tender, and ultimately transforming as a young man tries to come to terms with the historical moment he inhabits--and hopes to survive. Readers new to Cela will find in this novel ample reason for the author's growing reputation among audiences worldwide.
Author | : Camilo José CELA Y. TRULOCK |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1965 |
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