by José Ángel Mañas · Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423323517
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«Historias del Kronen» is the novel by José Ángel Mañas, published by Destino in paperback (237 pages, in Spanish).
Carlos, a twenty-one-year-old Madrid student from a well-off family, spends the summer with his friends among bars, rock concerts, sex and drugs. Written in the first person, the novel portrays a youth seeking to strip itself of feelings and scruples, fascinated by violence and by references such as «La naranja mecánica» or «American Psycho».
Finalist for the Nadal Prize in 1994, it is part of the Áncora y Delfín collection from Ediciones Destino (no. 721).
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction: a generational portrait of Madrid's youth in the nineties.
José Ángel Mañas is a Spanish writer. Mañas is often included as a member of the generation of neorealist Spanish writers from the 1990s, along with Juan Gracia, Gabriela Bustelo, Ray Loriga and Lucía Etxebarria. His books have been translated into several languages.
