by Camilo José Cela · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467023701
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«La familia de Pascual Duarte» is the literary novel by Camilo José Cela, published by Austral in paperback (336 pages, in Spanish).
Narrated as a confession from prison, the work presents Pascual Duarte, an Extremaduran peasant, who reviews a life marked by poverty, violence and fate. With a language that evokes popular speech, it is part of the Spanish realist tradition (picaresque, naturalism, Baroja and the social novel of the 1930s).
First title in Austral's Contemporánea collection; the work was originally published in 1942. Includes an introduction by Adolfo Soteló and a reading guide by Antonio Cerrada.
Suitable for readers of twentieth-century Spanish classics and for classroom use.
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.
