by Ana María Matute · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437635712
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«Los niños tontos» is a collection of twenty-one short stories by Ana María Matute, published by Ediciones Cátedra in paperback (104 pages, in Spanish).
Twenty-one short stories with a poetic tone about children living on the margins, marked by difference or a fate of suffering. Matute approaches their world with closeness and shows them through fantasy and childlike sensitivity; adults, alien to that gaze, fail to understand them. It is a work about childhood, not only for children.
First edition published in Spain on 7 July 2016 within the Cátedra base collection (number 52).
For readers of Spanish short fiction and the work of Ana María Matute; cited as recommended reading in educational settings.
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.
