by Fernando Fernán Gómez, Manuel Aznar Soler, Jose Ramon Lopez Garcia · Editorial Vicens Vives · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788431637392
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«Las bicicletas son para el verano» is the play by Fernando Fernán Gómez, published by Vicens Vives in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Madrid in 1936, the play portrays a middle-class family from Chamberí who see the Civil War burst into their daily lives and postpone their plans. Fernán Gómez builds a comedy of manners with a nostalgic and warm gaze, where history seeps into personal relationships and everyday life.
The play won the Lope de Vega Prize in 1977. This edition belongs to the Clásicos Hispánicos collection and is edited by Manuel Aznar Soler and José Ramón López García.
School edition aimed at secondary school students, with didactic material for working on theater in class.
Fernando Fernández Gómez, better known as Fernando Fernán Gómez, was a Spanish actor, screenwriter, film director, theater director, novelist, and playwright. Prolific in all these fields, he was elected member of the Royal Spanish Academy in 1998. He was born in Lima, Peru while his mother, Spanish actress Carola Fernán-Gómez, was making a tour in Latin America. He would later use her surname for his stage name when he moved to Spain in 1924.
