by Ana María Matute · Austral · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788408100515
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Pequeño teatro is a novel by the Spanish writer Ana María Matute, winner of the Planeta Prize in 1954. The story unfolds in a fantastic world where the characters, like humble dolls moved by a kind old man, reveal their miseries, inclinations, and feelings. Around a helpless teenager, passions and meanness stir, acquiring a symbolic character throughout the narration. Matute's prose, with her fine sensitivity, animates every page of this captivating work.
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.
