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Confined to a prison cell, thrice-murderer Pascual Duarte recounts
his journey from a violent childhood to a life of pain and
misfortune; juxtaposing tableaus of country poverty against scenes
of bare brutality, Nobel laureate Camilo José Cela crafts a
powerful meditation on cruelty and anomie. The Family of
Pascual Duarte follows his upbringing in the poor Spanish province
of Extremadura to his eventual imprisonment—and impending death
sentence. Death permeates Duarte’s world: his father’s
grotesque death to rabies, his young brother’s drowning in an oil
vat, and the loss of his children. But it is his wife’s sudden
death that condemns him to the darkest path when, losing all faith
and driven by blind revenge, he kills her souteneur. Now an alien
to the world around him, Pascual Duarte resigns himself to his
bloodied fate—yet never gives up his search for peace. Camilo
José Cela has been recognized as one of the pioneers of Spanish
literary realism, and his masterwork The Family of Pascual Duarte
proves the power of his prose. The novel, which birthed the
transgressive and groundbreaking tremendismo movement, roils with
emotion and unflinching inhumanity, painting the Spanish
countryside in bloodshed, eroticism, and an unshakeable feeling of
grief. Blending the political with the personal with the
philosophic, the result is an unparalleled exploration of the
fraught relationship between man and society, and the past’s
inescapable hold on the present.
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The Hive (Paperback)
Camilo Jose Cela, James Womack
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Complete and uncensored in English for the very first time, a fragmented, daringly irreverent depiction of decadence and decay in Franco's Spain written by the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The translator Anthony Kerrigan compared Camilo José Cela, the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, to Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Curzio Malaparte—all “ferocious writers, truculent, badly spoken, even foulmouthed.” However provocative and disturbing, Cela’s novels are also flat-out dazzling, their sentences as rigorous as they are riotous, lodging like knives in the reader’s mind. Cela called himself a proponent of “uglyism,” of “nothingism.” But he has the knack, to quote another critic, Américo Castro, 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, The Hive is a virtuosic group portrait of a wounded and sick society.
La fuente de la edad se publico en octubre de 1986 y obtuvo al ano
siguiente el Premio de la Critica y el Premio Nacional de
Literatura. Novela de profundas raices tradicionales y populates,
es una fabula jocosa, grotesca y simbolica, que con el pretexto de
la busqueda de una fabulosa fuente que proporciona la eterna
juventud, versa sobre la existencia humana, sometida por una parte
a la realidad de la materia mas vulgar y por otra espoleada hacia
los espejismos de la liberacion.
Humans have engaged in artistic and aesthetic activities since the
appearance of our species. Our ancestors have decorated their
bodies, tools, and utensils for over 100,000 years. The expression
of meaning using color, line, sound, rhythm, or movement, among
other means, constitutes a fundamental aspect of our species'
biological and cultural heritage. Art and aesthetics, therefore,
contribute to our species identity and distinguish it from its
living and extinct relatives. Science is faced with the challenge
of explaining the natural foundations of such a unique trait, and
the way cultural processes nurture it into magnificent expressions,
historically and ethnically unique. How does the human brain bring
about these sorts of behaviors? What neural processes underlie the
appreciation of painting, music, and dance? How does training
modulate these processes? How are they impaired by brain lesions
and neurodegenerative diseases? How did such neural underpinnings
evolve? Are humans the only species capable of aesthetic
appreciation, or are other species endowed with the rudiments of
this capacity? This volume brings together the work on such
questions by leading experts in genetics, psychology, neuroimaging,
neuropsychology, art history, and philosophy. It sets the stage for
a cognitive neuroscience of art and aesthetics, understood in the
broadest possible terms. With sections on visual art, dance, music,
neuropsychology, and evolution, the breadth of this volume's scope
reflects the richness and variety of topics and methods currently
used today by scientists to understand the way our brain endows us
with the faculty to produce and appreciate art and aesthetics.
Humans have engaged in artistic and aesthetic activities since the
appearance of our species. Our ancestors have decorated their
bodies, tools, and utensils for over 100,000 years. The expression
of meaning using color, line, sound, rhythm, or movement, among
other means, constitutes a fundamental aspect of our species'
biological and cultural heritage. Art and aesthetics, therefore,
contribute to our species identity and distinguish it from its
living and extinct relatives. Science is faced with the challenge
of explaining the natural foundations of such a unique trait, and
the way cultural processes nurture it into magnificent expressions,
historically and ethnically unique. How does the human brain bring
about these sorts of behaviors? What neural processes underlie the
appreciation of painting, music, and dance? How does training
modulate these processes? How are they impaired by brain lesions
and neurodegenerative diseases? How did such neural underpinnings
evolve? Are humans the only species capable of aesthetic
appreciation, or are other species endowed with the rudiments of
this capacity? This volume brings together the work on such
questions by leading experts in genetics, psychology, neuroimaging,
neuropsychology, art history, and philosophy. It sets the stage for
a cognitive neuroscience of art and aesthetics, understood in the
broadest possible terms. With sections on visual art, dance, music,
neuropsychology, and evolution, the breadth of this volume's scope
reflects the richness and variety of topics and methods currently
used today by scientists to understand the way our brain endows us
with the faculty to produce and appreciate art and aesthetics.
Widely regarded as one of the best works by the winner of the 1989
Nobel Prize for Literature, San Camilo, 1936 appears here for the
first time in English translation. One of Spain's most popular
writers, Camilo Jose Cela is recognized for his experiments with
language and with difficult subject matter. In San Camilo, 1936,
first published in 1969, these concerns converge in a fascinating
narrative that is as challenging as it is rewarding, as troubling
as it is compelling. A story of history as it happens, by turns
confusing and startingly clear, echoing with news and rumors,
defined by grand gestures and intimate pauses, the novel leads the
reader into the ordinary life of extraordinary times. Beginning on
the eve of the Spanish Civil War, San Camilo, 1936 follows a
twenty-year-old student's attempts to sort out his private affairs
(sex, money, career) in the midst of the turmoil overtaking his
country. In vivid and richly textured prose that distinguishes
Cela's work, the emotional reality of civil war takes on a vibrant
immediacy that is humorous, tender, and ultimately transforming as
a young man tries to come to terms with the historical moment he
inhabits-and hopes to survive. Readers new to Cela will find in
this novel ample reason for the author's growing reputation among
audiences worldwide.
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