by Ana María Matute · Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423307616
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«Algunos muchachos» is a collection of seven short stories by Ana María Matute, published by Destino in paperback (165 pages, in Spanish).
The seven stories portray children and adolescents who resist growing up and take refuge in childhood imagination, with a mix of innocence, malice, and cruelty. One follows a boy who wants to set his house on fire; another, a girl who writes a private diary. Matute's prose wraps these lives in a desolate and poetic light.
Third edition, volume 306 of Destino's Áncora y Delfín Collection. The work was originally published in 1963.
For readers of Spanish fiction and short stories, especially those seeking a literary look at childhood and adolescence.
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.
