The Hive Cela Camilo Jos
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…
Specifikacia The Hive Cela Camilo Jos
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 has compared the work of Camilo Jos Cela, the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, to that of Louis-Ferdinand Cline and Curzio Malaparte. These are, Kerrigan writes, "ferocious writers, truculent, badly spoken, foul mouthed." However provocative and disturbing, they are also flatout dazzling as writers, whose sentences, as rigorous as they are riotous, lodge like knives in the reader's mind. Cela called himself a proponent of "uglyism," of "nothingism." But he has the knack, the critic Amrico Castro reminds us, of deploying those "nothings and lacks" to construct beauty.The Hive is set over the course of a few days in the