by Fernando Fernán Gómez · Espasa Calpe · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423919093
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«Las bicicletas son para el verano» is the play by Fernando Fernán Gómez, published by Espasa Calpe in paperback (208 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War, the play follows the daily life of a middle-class family, marked by scarcity and repression. Fernán Gómez avoids epic drama and shows the repercussions of the conflict on fragile, defenceless characters, through simple, everyday situations.
Work distinguished with the Lope de Vega Prize in 1977 and originally published in 1984. It belongs to the Austral Collection (number 109), with an introduction by Eduardo Haro Tecglen.
A common reading in schools and universities, and of interest to those studying 20th-century Spanish theatre and the Civil War.
Fernando Fernández Gómez, better known as Fernando Fernán Gómez, was a Spanish actor, screenwriter, film director, theater director, novelist, and playwright. Prolific in all these fields, he was elected member of the Royal Spanish Academy in 1998. He was born in Lima, Peru while his mother, Spanish actress Carola Fernán-Gómez, was making a tour in Latin America. He would later use her surname for his stage name when he moved to Spain in 1924.
