by Camilo José Cela · Las Americas Pub Co · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788402074430
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«La colmena» is the novel by Camilo José Cela, published by Las Americas Pub Co in paperback (323 pages, in Spanish).
The action takes place in Madrid in 1943, in the midst of the postwar period, and follows over a few days a broad mosaic of characters from the lower middle class who cross paths at the Doña Rosa café, in boarding houses, and on the streets. With a structure of brief, simultaneous sequences, Cela paints a choral vision of the misery, repression, and daily monotony of the era.
The novel, originally published in 1951, opens the series «Caminos inciertos».
Recommended for students of Spanish literature and for those who want to approach the social narrative of the postwar period.
Camilo José Cela y Trulock, 1st Marquess of Iria Flavia was a Spanish novelist, poet, story writer and essayist associated with the Generation of '36 movement.
