by Camilo José Cela · Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070707720
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«La ruche» is the French translation of the novel «La colmena» by Camilo José Cela, published by Gallimard in paperback (260 pages, in French).
Set in Madrid in 1942, the work traces a choral portrait of the postwar period through vignettes and flashes. In a café run by the terrible doña Rosa, adventurers, parasites, prostitutes, unemployed youths, harassed writers and other victims of misery cross paths; their intertwined stories compose an ironic and raw vision of society.
The original «La colmena» (1951) is part of the series «Caminos inciertos»; this French edition, translated by Henri L. P. Astor, was published in 1989.
A work of interest for those who enjoy 20th-century Spanish classics and postwar social 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.
