Name: La Colmena (in Spanish)
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Author: Camilo José Cela
ISBN: 9788437607948

Type

Physical Book

Author

Camilo José Cela

Publisher

Catedra

Topic

letras hispánicas

Collection

letras hispánicas

Year

2001

Language

Spanish

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

18x11 cm

ISBN

8437607949

ISBN13

9788437607948

Edited in

España

Edition No.

2011

Synopsis "La Colmena (in Spanish)"

La obra de Camilo José Cela llena gran parte de la literatura española de los últimos cincuenta años. Desde el principio, y sin necesidad de someterse a ningún control ideológico, supo separarse de la España oficial y escribir unas críticas que pusieron de manifiesto el desánimo y la miseria económica y social en que había sumido al país el nuevo régimen. Aunque el autor tiene interés por presentar su obra como testimonio y opta por escoger los aspectos ásperos, entrañables y dolorosos, Cela no se limita a registrar unos hechos, sino que realiza una importante elaboración literaria. Según vamos leyendo nos damos cuenta de La Colmena, más que un documento, es la visión sintetizadora y cargada de significación que el narrador tiene del Madrid de los años 40.

Camilo José Cela

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Camilo José Cela Trulock (Iria Flavia, A Coruña, May 11, 1916 - Madrid, January 17, 2002), Spanish writer and academic, is one of the essential authors in the canon of Spanish-language literature. In 1925, he moved to Madrid with his family and in 1934 began studying Medicine at the Complutense University, which he soon abandoned to attend as an auditor the classes of Contemporary Literature by Pedro Salinas. It is Salinas, to whom Cela showed his first poems, a key figure in the settling of his literary vocation

In 1940, Cela tried a new career, this time in Law -which he would also end up abandoning-, while writing his first major work, La familia de Pascual Duarte (1942), whose second edition had to be published in Buenos Aires after being banned by the censorship. This first novel was soon followed by Viaje a La Alcarria (1948) and La colmena (1951), published in Buenos Aires and immediately banned in Spain. In 1954 he moved to Mallorca and shortly after, in 1957, he was appointed academic of the language. His work, extensive and varied, has been published regularly since then

Among them, in addition to the titles already mentioned, it is worth highlighting El gallego y su cuadrilla (1949), Del Miño al Bidasoa (1952), San Camilo, 1936 (1969), Mazurca para dos muertos (1983, National Narrative Award) or Cristo versus Arizona (1988). To these should be added his work as a columnist for various newspapers. Among the awards he treasured throughout his life, it is mandatory to mention the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters (1987), the Nobel Prize in Literature (1989) and the Miguel de Cervantes (1995)

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