by Ana María Matute · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423351121
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«Los niños tontos» is the collection of 21 short stories by Ana María Matute, published by Austral in paperback (144 pages, in Spanish).
Twenty-one very brief stories in which children try to understand the postwar world from their innocent perspective, dedicated by Matute to happy children in a sad world; together they form an impressionistic portrait of childhood, of great narrative richness and serene beauty. Matute clarified that it is not a book for children, but about children.
It belongs to the Austral Educación collection, where it is number 16, in an edition by Dolors Madrenas with a preliminary study, teaching material and textual commentary.
This edition can be used in the classroom and also appeals to adult readers who want to rediscover childhood through Matute's gaze.
Ana María Matute Ausejo was a Spanish writer and member of the Real Academia Española. In 1959, she received the Premio Nadal for Primera memoria. The third woman to receive the Cervantes Prize for her literary oeuvre, she is considered one of the foremost novelists of the posguerra, the period immediately following the Spanish Civil War.
