Mazurka for Two Dead Men
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Mazurka for Two Dead Men by Camilo Cela
Mazurka for Two Dead Men represents a culmination of the 1989 Nobel Prize winner Camilo Jose Cela's literary art. The novel was originally published in Spain in 1983 and is now presented in a fine translation by Patricia Haugaard. In 1936, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, Lionheart Gamuzo is abducted and killed, an event recalled repeatedly by the widowed Adega, one of the several narrative voices. In 1939, when the war ends, Tanis Gamuzo avenges his brother. For both events, and for them only, the blind accordion player Gaudencio plays the same mazurka. Set in a backward rural community in Galicia (the author's home territory), Cela's creation is in many ways like a contrapuntal musical composition built with varying themes and moods. In alternately melancholy, humorous, lyrical, or coarse tones he portrays a reign of fools.
Cela never forgets that the mazurka is a danceHe writes with gusto about that fundamental two-step of human existence: sex and death. -- Los Angeles Times
The definitive novel of how the Spanish Civil War was actually experienced by ordinary people. -- Newsday
If there is any Spanish novelist who deserves the Nobel Prize on the merit of narrative experimentation alone, it is without a doubt Camilo Jose Cela. -- Miguel Ugarte - The Nation
His most mesmerizing fiction, about life during the first four decades of the twentieth century, a life so brutal that the Spanish Civil War, when it occurs, seems a mere continuation of the ordinary. A fiendishly haunting story. -- The New York Times
Cela is the Goya of Franco's Spain. -- Paul West
There is a secret slot for Cela at his best, as one of the great prose stylists, plural, of Spain-a man dangerously like us. -- Roberto Bolano
The definitive novel of how the Spanish Civil War was actually experienced by ordinary people. -- Newsday
If there is any Spanish novelist who deserves the Nobel Prize on the merit of narrative experimentation alone, it is without a doubt Camilo Jose Cela. -- Miguel Ugarte - The Nation
His most mesmerizing fiction, about life during the first four decades of the twentieth century, a life so brutal that the Spanish Civil War, when it occurs, seems a mere continuation of the ordinary. A fiendishly haunting story. -- The New York Times
Cela is the Goya of Franco's Spain. -- Paul West
There is a secret slot for Cela at his best, as one of the great prose stylists, plural, of Spain-a man dangerously like us. -- Roberto Bolano
Camilo José Cela, winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in 1916 in Galicia in a family with aristocratic roots. His father was a Spaniard, his mother of English birth but also with some Italian blood. His medical studies were interrupted due to the civil war, after which he returned to Madrid to study law. In 1942, he published the novel that made his name, La familia de Pascual Duarte. Since then he has devoted himself entirely to literature. He lived on Mallorca for decades, starting in 1954. In 1956 and until 1979, he published the magazine, Papeles de Son Armadans in which, during the Franco era, he could give space to the young opposition. He died in 2001.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780811228251 |
| ISBN 10 | 0811228258 |
| Titel | Mazurka for Two Dead Men |
| Autor | Camilo Jose Cela |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2019-02-26 |
| Seitenanzahl | 320 |
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