by Ramón J. Sender · Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423308750
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«Novelas ejemplares de Cíbola» is the collection of short stories by Spanish writer Ramón J. Sender, published by Destino in paperback (364 pages, in Spanish).
Novelas ejemplares de Cíbola brings together eleven stories that move between chronicle of the conquest of America and fable. Sender presents a professor, a gold prospector and a priest, and through their stories addresses ambition, faith, desire, the clash of cultures and violence as limit experiences of the human condition.
The book belongs to the Colección Áncora y Delfín (vol. 456) of Ediciones Destino. The first edition appeared in Barcelona in 1975.
For readers of twentieth-century Spanish narrative and for those who want to discover the short prose of Ramón J. Sender.
Ramón José Sender Garcés was a Spanish novelist, essayist and journalist. Several of his works were translated into English by the distinguished zoologist, Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell, including Seven Red Sundays , Mr Witt Among the Rebels and The War in Spain (Contraataque). He published articles in the Valencia-based Orto magazine between 1932 and 1934. During the Spanish Civil War Sender was among the contributors of El Mono Azul, a Republican literary magazine.
