by Juan García Hortelano · Bliblioteca de el Sol. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788479691028
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Mucho cuento» is the short story collection by Juan García Hortelano, published by Biblioteca de El Sol in paperback (93 pages, in Spanish).
Twenty stories about a besieged and bombed Madrid, where children lose both the war and their childhood while postwar education clings to its anachronisms. The tone mixes humor, irony, and absurdity to portray the disillusionment of a divided society, with episodes such as «Carne de chocolate» or «Preparativos de boda».
«Mucho cuento» is volume 77 of the Biblioteca de El Sol collection. It was originally published in 1987; this edition is from 1991.
Juan García Hortelano was a Spanish writer. He was born in Madrid. His father was a doctor. When the Spanish Civil War broke out, he was sent with his siblings to Cuenca, only returning to Madrid in 1937 where he lived with his maternal grandparents. The libraries at school and home turned him into an avid reader. Following the war, he entered college in 1941, later studying law at Madrid University. He joined the Civil Service in 1953. Throughout his life, he dedicated himself to writing with fervour and discipline without abandoning his administrative job in Madrid. He cultivated friendships with writers and intellectuals of his generation: Juan Benet, Carlos Barral, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Juan Marsé and Ángel González.
