by Juan García Hortelano · Lumen · tapa dura · ISBN 9788426416070
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«El gran momento de Mary Tribune» is the novel by Juan García Hortelano, published by Lumen in hardcover (856 pages, in Spanish).
It tells the story of a group of idle, party-loving young people in 1960s Madrid, whose relationships are profoundly altered by the arrival of Mary Tribune, an obsessive and eccentric American woman. Through carefully crafted dialogue, the narrative describes with irony and a certain bitterness a lost generation of the era.
The work was originally published in 1972; this 2007 Lumen edition includes a prologue by Lluís Izquierdo.
For readers of contemporary Spanish literature and those interested in 1960s Madrid youth and their generational portraits.
Juan García Hortelano was a Spanish writer. He was born in Madrid. His father was a doctor. When the Spanish Civil War broke out, he was sent with his siblings to Cuenca, only returning to Madrid in 1937 where he lived with his maternal grandparents. The libraries at school and home turned him into an avid reader. Following the war, he entered college in 1941, later studying law at Madrid University. He joined the Civil Service in 1953. Throughout his life, he dedicated himself to writing with fervour and discipline without abandoning his administrative job in Madrid. He cultivated friendships with writers and intellectuals of his generation: Juan Benet, Carlos Barral, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Juan Marsé and Ángel González.
