Mazurka for Two Dead Men

2019-02-05 Fiction

Author : Camilo José Cela
Release : 2019-02-05
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 658/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Mazurka for Two Dead Men written by Camilo José Cela. This book was released on 2019-02-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Boxwood

2002 Fiction

Author : Camilo José Cela
Release : 2002
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 971/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Boxwood written by Camilo José Cela. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reader bear with him. There's gold to mine!

Family of Pascual Duarte

2023-11-14 Fiction

Author : Camilo Jose Cela
Release : 2023-11-14
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 30X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Family of Pascual Duarte written by Camilo Jose Cela. This book was released on 2023-11-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation

2000 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Peter France
Release : 2000
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 844/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation written by Peter France. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, written by a team of experts from many countries, provides a comprehensive account of the ways in which translation has brought the major literature of the world into English-speaking culture. Part I discusses theoretical issues and gives an overview of the history of translation into English. Part II, the bulk of the work, arranged by language of origin, offers critical discussions, with bibliographies, of the translation history of specific texts (e.g. the Koran, the Kalevala), authors (e.g. Lucretius, Dostoevsky), genres (e.g. Chinese poetry, twentieth-century Italian prose) and national literatures (e.g. Hungarian, Afrikaans).

Spain

2011-04-18 History

Author : Javier Tusell
Release : 2011-04-18
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 745/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Spain written by Javier Tusell. This book was released on 2011-04-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive survey of Spain’s history looks at the major political, social, and economic changes that took place from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the twenty-first century. A thorough introduction to post-Civil War Spain, from its development under Franco and subsequent transition to democracy up to the present day Tusell was a celebrated public figure and historian. During his lifetime he negotiated the return to Spain of Picasso’s Guernica, was elected UCD councillor for Madrid, and became a respected media commentator before his untimely death in 2005 Includes a biography and political assessment of Francisco Franco Covers a number of pertinent topics, including fascism, isolationism, political opposition, economic development, decolonization, terrorism, foreign policy, and democracy Provides a context for understanding the continuing tensions between democracy and terrorism, including the effects of the 2004 Madrid Bombings

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