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Mazurka for Two Dead Men (Cela, Camilo José / Haugaard, Patricia (Übers.))
Mazurka for Two Dead Men
Autor Cela, Camilo José / Haugaard, Patricia (Übers.)
Verlag New Directions
Sprache Englisch
Mediaform Adobe Digital Editions
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
Seiten 320 S.
Artikelnummer 34249028
ISBN 978-0-8112-2565-6
Plattform EPUB
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CHF 22.90
Zusammenfassung

A New York Times Best Book of the Year

Nobel Prize Laureate

Mazurka for Two Dead Men, the culmination of Camilo José Cela's literary art, opens in 1936 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War: Lionheart Gamuzo is savagely murdered. In 1939, as the war ends, his brother avenges his death. For both deaths, the blind accordion player Gaudencio plays the same mazurka. Set in backward rural Galicia, Cela's excellent novel portrays a reign of fools, and works like contrapuntal music, its themes calling and responding, alternately brutal, melancholy, funny, lyrical, and coarse.

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.