by Juan García Hortelano · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420605890
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«Cuentos completos, 2» is the collection of short stories by Juan García Hortelano, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (456 pages, in Spanish).
This volume brings together the short stories that Juan García Hortelano collected in «Gente de Madrid», «Apólogos y milesios» and «Mucho cuento». In them he portrays everyday life and human relationships, offering a mosaic of the social, moral and political reality of 20th-century Spain, with the irony and precision that define his short fiction.
Second volume of the two-volume edition of the complete short stories, published in 1992 in the El Libro de Bolsillo (Literature Section) collection by Alianza Editorial.
For readers of contemporary Spanish short fiction and for those who want to approach the mid-century generation.
Juan García Hortelano was a Spanish writer. He was born in Madrid. His father was a doctor. When the Spanish Civil War broke out, he was sent with his siblings to Cuenca, only returning to Madrid in 1937 where he lived with his maternal grandparents. The libraries at school and home turned him into an avid reader. Following the war, he entered college in 1941, later studying law at Madrid University. He joined the Civil Service in 1953. Throughout his life, he dedicated himself to writing with fervour and discipline without abandoning his administrative job in Madrid. He cultivated friendships with writers and intellectuals of his generation: Juan Benet, Carlos Barral, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Juan Marsé and Ángel González.
