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Complete and uncensored in English for the very first time, a fragmented, daringly irreverent depiction of decadence and decay in Francos Spain written by the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The translator Anthony Kerrigan has compared the work of Camilo José Cela, the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, to that of Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Curzio Malaparte. These are, Kerrigan writes, ferocious writers, truculent, badly spoken, foul mouthed. However provocative and disturbing, they are also flatout dazzling as writers, whose sentences, as rigorous as they are riotous, lodge like knives in the readers mind. Cela called himself a proponent of uglyism, of nothingism. But he has the knack, the critic Américo Castro reminds us, of deploying those nothings and lacks to construct beauty. The Hive is set over the course of a few days in the Madrid of 1943, not long after the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the regime of General Francisco Franco was at its most oppressive. The book includes more than three hundred characters whose comings and goings it tracks to hypnotic effect. Scabrous, scandalous, and profane, this virtuosic group portrait of a wounded and sick society was first published in Buenos Aires in 1951 because in Spain it could not be published at all. This new translation by James Womack is the first in English to present Celas masterpiece in uncensored form.Camilo José Cela (1916-2002) won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1989. Though he wrote prolifically and audaciously in a number of different genres, he is best known for his novel The Hive, which was published in Argentina in 1951 after being banned in Francos Spain. In addition to his writing, he produced drawings and paintings and also appeared in several films. James Womack is a poet and a translator from Russian and Spanish. His most recent poetry collection, Homunculus, was published by the UK press Carcanet in 2020. His translations include Manuel Vilass Heaven and a collection of poetry by Vladimir Mayakovsky.Book specifications:Author: Camilo José CelaCover type: PaperbackPublishing Year: 2023Publishing Month: 3Pages: 296Language: EnglishPublisher: New York Review of BooksWeight: 367 g
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