by Miguel Sánchez-Ostiz · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433917874
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«La gran ilusión» is the contemporary fiction novel by Miguel Sánchez-Ostiz, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardback (176 pages, in Spanish).
A librarian withdrawn from the world investigates the death of a writer in Paris. The story goes back to the sixties in Bayonne, where three film-loving friends dreamed of another life; that project failed and weighs on their present. The novel reflects on friendship, memory and the boundary between reality and fiction.
Narrativas hispánicas collection, number 87. It won the VII Herralde Novel Prize in 1989 and the Euskadi Literature Prize in 1990.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction interested in stories about memory, friendship and cinema.
Miguel Sánchez-Ostiz is a prolific Spanish writer. He has published more than 50 books in a variety of genres, including fiction, poetry, travel and literary criticism. He is an acknowledged expert on the life and work of Pio Baroja. Among his major novels are La gran ilusión and No existe tal lugar which won the Premio de la Crítica de narrativa castellana in 1998.
