Name: La Colmena (in Spanish)
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Author: Camilo José Cela
ISBN: 9788437637891

Type

Physical Book

Author

Camilo José Cela

Publisher

Ediciones Cátedra

Collection

Letras Hispánicas

Year

2018

Language

Spanish

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

18.00 x 11.00

ISBN13

9788437637891

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "La Colmena (in Spanish)"

La obra de Camilo José Cela llena gran parte de la literatura española de los últimos cincuenta años. Casi medio siglo en primera línea, ofreciendo periódicamente libros que buscan una innovación formal y construyen un mundo, testimonian la vocación y el oficio de un escritor sin cuya obra la literatura española actual sería muy diferente. Si la publicación de " La colmena " en 1951 resultó ser un fresco emocionante de la intrahistoria inmediata de España, hoy es, ante todo, una hermosísima novela que expone la difícil esperanza de vida en un mundo gris, aislado y oprimido por una violencia fascista institucionalizada. Una novela que obliga, en la satisfacción de la obra bien hecha, a reflexionar sobre los límites de las relaciones humanas, de la moral individual y colectiva. Una novela que supera el momento histórico y la geografía en los que fue escrita, para poder albergar a lectores distintos y alejados de los iniciales, como certificó la concesión a Camilo José Cela del Premio Nobel de Literatura.

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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