by Camilo José Cela · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423345397
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«La colmena» is the novel by Camilo José Cela, published by Austral in paperback (384 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Madrid in 1943, the novel follows a mosaic of characters scraping by in the postwar period: eating hot food, dodging the cold, satisfying desire and fleeing tuberculosis mark their routine. With a choral structure of brief sequences, Cela offers a merciless portrait of streets, cafés and bedrooms, between irony and bitterness.
First instalment of Cela's «Caminos inciertos» series. Work originally published in 1951; this Austral edition is from 2011.
For readers of twentieth-century Spanish literary classics and postwar social fiction.
Camilo José Cela y Trulock, 1st Marquess of Iria Flavia was a Spanish novelist, poet, story writer and essayist associated with the Generation of '36 movement.
