by Carlos Barral · Alianza Tres · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420630137
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«Años de penitencia» is the first volume of Carlos Barral's memoirs, published by Alianza Tres in paperback (297 pages, in Spanish).
Carlos Barral reconstructs his adolescence and early youth in postwar Spain. He alternates situations, settings and colorful characters with reflections on events and scenes, and bears witness to the social and intellectual atmosphere of the era from the distance of memory.
This book is number 13 in the Alianza Tres collection; the first edition dates from 1975.
For readers of memoirs and twentieth-century Spanish literature, with an interest in postwar intellectual life.
Carlos Barral i Agesta (1928–1989) was a Spanish poet, considered to be one of the greatest poets of the so-called generation of the 1950s. He helped to establish the Formentor Group and their literary awards the Prix Formentor and the Prix International. He was also a member of the European Parliament and an important publisher.
