by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester · Ediciones Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423310388
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«La saga/fuga de J. B.» is a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, published by Ediciones Destino in paperback (584 pages, in Spanish).
Set in the Galician city of Castroforte, it follows José Bastida, a philosophy professor swept up by inexplicable phenomena. With a satirical and fantastical tone, the novel questions the boundaries between reality and fiction, and builds a narrative full of humour and metafictional winks.
The novel was originally published in 1972 and won the Premio de la Crítica de Narrativa Castellana and the Premi Ciutat de Barcelona. This edition belongs to the Destinolibro collection from Ediciones Destino.
Recommended for readers interested in twentieth-century Spanish narrative and novels that play with metafiction and the fantastical.
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester was a Spanish writer associated with the Generation of '36 movement.
