by Francisco Ayala · tapa dura · ISBN 9788481302998
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«La cabeza del cordero» is the short story collection by Francisco Ayala, published by Bibliotex in hardcover (156 pages, in Spanish).
The volume brings together five stories that address the Spanish Civil War from personal experience and its emotional aftermath. In the title story, a Spanish businessman visits Fez and has dinner with supposed relatives, descendants of Moriscos; the encounter awakens the anguished memory of his conduct during the war.
Edition from the Biblioteca El Mundo collection, devoted to the hundred best novels in Spanish of the twentieth century, with a prologue by Manuel Alvar. The work was originally published in 1949.
For readers interested in twentieth-century Spanish narrative and in the different literary perspectives on the Civil War.
Francisco Ayala García-Duarte was a Spanish writer, the last representative of the Generation of '27.
