| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9788427908048 | | Publisher: Lectorum Pubns | | Publish Date: 9/12/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 35237496 | | Item#: BRCJHF | | Dimensions (in Inches) 7H x 4.5L x 1T |
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A café in Madrid is witness to the oppression, poverty, and despair in Spain after the Civil War. Formally innovative, THE HIVE (LA COLEMA in Spanish) has no central figure, as hundreds of characters wander into the café, sharing their stories. Although Camilo José Cela fought on the side of Franco during the Civil War, Franco's regime banned this book, which was published in 1951, for many years for its sharp critiques of life for the lower classes under the dictatorship.
| Praise| "It is not to be wondered that the Franco censorship disapproves of Cela's novels. Life in Madrid as he portrays it is brutal, hungry, and senseless. Hypocrisy, fear and oppression are in command..." 19/27/1953 |
| Author Bio| Camilo Jose Cela | | "It rains gently and unceasingly, it rains listlessly but with infinite patience, as it has always rained upon this earth..." Camilo José Cela opens his unflinching, acerbic, and at times vulgar novel of murder and revenge during the Spanish Civil War, MAZURKA FOR TWO DEAD MEN, with these words describing the climate of northwestern Spain. Cela was born in this region, in the village of Iria Flavia in Galicia, in 1916. In his youth he migrated to Madrid, where he was when the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936. Like the image of the rain to which he returns again and again in MAZURKA, throughout his oeuvre of powerful fiction, Cela revisits these physical and historical settings. ||Cela fought on the Nationalist side during the war and afterwards worked briefly as a censor under Franco's government; he received criticism throughout his life for these decisions. Nevertheless, his first novel, THE FAMILY OF PASCUAL DUARTE published in 1942, is an irascible portrayal of the brutality of poverty, and his 1951 novel THE HIVE was censored by Franco for its depiction of the hardships of the lower classes under the dictatorship. THE HIVE also secured Cela's reputation as a literary innovator exploring nonlinear narratives and multiple perspectives in a style energetically bouncing somewhere between Miguel de Cervantes and James Joyce. Cela was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989 and was granted membership into the Real Academia Espanola. He wrote persistently throughout his life, publishing short fiction, travel books, and even reference books. (His SECRET DICTIONARY is a list of phrases, often obscenities, used in speech but not in print.) Camilo José Cela died in 2002 at the cantankerous age of 85. |
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