by Juan García Hortelano · Orbis · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788476340035
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«Gente de Madrid» is the collection of short stories by Juan García Hortelano, published by Orbis in paperback (185 pages, in Spanish).
The work brings together portraits, sketches and almost grotesque caricatures of urban types who seem to come from a chance encounter on the streets of Madrid. It marked the author's first foray, in full maturity, into the short story, and evidences his progressive distancing from social realism.
1985 edition included in Orbis's Grandes Autores Españoles del Siglo XX collection. The work originally appeared in 1967.
For readers interested in contemporary Spanish literature and in vignettes of Madrid society.
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.
