by Camilo José Cela · libro aguilar nº · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422627845
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«La colmena» is the novel by Camilo José Cela, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (349 pages, in Spanish).
The action takes place in Madrid in 1943, in the midst of the postwar period, and portrays the daily life of a broad set of lower-middle-class characters who cross paths in cafés, streets, and tenement houses. With a fragmented structure of brief sequences, the novel offers a choral and bitter vision of daily survival: eating hot food, dodging the cold, satisfying sexual desire, escaping tuberculosis, and killing time.
Commemorative edition for the author's seventy-third anniversary, specially illustrated by Lorenzo Goñi. Inaugural work of the «Caminos inciertos» series.
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.
