by Camilo José Cela, Raquel Asún, Adolfo Sotelo Vázquez · Castalia Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788470394362
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«La colmena» is the novel by Camilo José Cela, edited by Raquel Asún and revised by Adolfo Sotelo Vázquez, published by Castalia in paperback (468 pages).
Set in Madrid in 1942, the novel follows a large group of characters through cafés, boarding houses and streets. With brief, simultaneous sequences, Cela builds a mosaic of the postwar period: hunger, misery, hypocrisy and hopelessness in a collective portrait without a central hero. Published in Buenos Aires in 1951 due to Spanish censorship.
Number 140 in the Clásicos Castalia collection. Includes a biographical and critical introduction, selected bibliography, index of characters and an appendix on the reception of the first edition.
Ideal for literature students and readers who want to approach a classic of twentieth-century Spanish narrative.
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.
