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portada The Hive (New York Review Books Classics) (in English)

The Hive (New York Review Books Classics) (in English)

Camilo José Cela (Author) · James Womack (Translated by) · New York Review of Books · Paperback

The Hive (New York Review Books Classics) (in English) - Camilo José Cela

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Synopsis "The Hive (New York Review Books Classics) (in English)"

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 in Literature, to Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Curzio Malaparte--all "ferocious writers, truculent, badly spoken, even foulmouthed." However provocative and disturbing, Cela's novels are also flat-out dazzling, their sentences as rigorous as they are riotous, lodging like knives in the reader's mind. Cela called himself a proponent of "uglyism," of "nothingism." But he has the knack, to quote another critic, Américo Castro, of deploying those "nothings and lacks" to construct beauty. The Hive is set over the course of a few days in the Madrid of 1943, not long after the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the regime of General Francisco Franco was at its most oppressive. The book includes more than three hundred characters whose comings and goings it tracks to hypnotic effect. Scabrous, scandalous, and profane, The Hive is a virtuosic group portrait of a wounded and sick society.
Camilo José Cela
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Camilo José Cela Trulock (Iria Flavia, A Coruña, 11 de mayo de 1916 - Madrid, 17 de enero de 2002), escritor y académico español, es uno de los autores imprescindibles en el canon de la literatura en lengua española. En 1925 se trasladó a Madrid con su familia y en 1934 comenzó estudios de Medicina en la Universidad Complutense que pronto abandonó para asistir como oyente a las clases de Literatura Contemporánea de Pedro Salinas. Es Salinas, a quien Cela enseña sus primeros poemas, una figura clave para el asiento de su vocación literaria. En 1940, Cela intenta una nueva carrera, esta vez Derecho -que también acabará abandonando-, mientras escribe su primera gran obra, La familia de Pascual Duarte (1942), cuya segunda edición tuvo que ser publicada en Buenos Aires al prohibirla la censura. A esta primera novela siguieron, poco después, Viaje a La Alcarria (1948) y La colmena (1951), publicada en Buenos Aires e inmediatamente prohibida en España. En 1954 se traslada a Mallorca y poco después, en 1957, es nombrado académico de la lengua. Su obra, extensa y variada, se publica con asiduidad desde entonces. Entre ella, además de los títulos ya mencionados, cabe destacar El gallego y su cuadrilla (1949), Del Miño al Bidasoa (1952), San Camilo, 1936 (1969), Mazurca para dos muertos (1983, Premio Nacional de Narrativa) o Cristo versus Arizona (1988). A ellas habría que añadir su labor como articulista para distintos diarios. Entre los premios que atesoró a lo largo de su vida es obligado citar el Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras (1987), el Nobel de Literatura (1989) y el Miguel de Cervantes (1995).
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