by Camilo José Cela · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423342785
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«La familia de Pascual Duarte» is the novel by Camilo José Cela, published by Austral in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
Set in rural post-war Spain, the novel follows the memoirs of Pascual Duarte, an Extremaduran peasant who, from death row, reviews an existence marked by misery, fatality and violence. His first-person testimony portrays a primitive and ruthless world, where brutality is the only learned response to betrayal and deceit.
The work was originally published in 1942 and this Austral edition belongs to the Contemporánea collection.
Recommended for readers of Spanish literature classics and post-war narrative.
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.
