by Fernando Fernán Gómez · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437626321
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«Las bicicletas son para el verano» is the play by Fernando Fernán Gómez, published by Ediciones Cátedra in paperback (248 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War, the play portrays the daily life of a middle-class family trying to carry on amid bombings, fear and scarcity. The father, Luis, tries to protect his family and maintain some normality while the conflict changes everything. Through simple dialogues and costumbrista scenes, the piece shows how war seeps into the domestic sphere and turns the desire for bicycles for the summer into a symbol of freedom and of an adolescence that may never come.
The work belongs to the Letras Hispánicas collection, edited by Francisco Gutiérrez Carbajo. This 248-page paperback edition was published by Ediciones Cátedra in 2010 and is written in Spanish.
Recommended for readers of theatre and contemporary Spanish literature, as well as for students wishing to approach a key 20th-century play about historical memory.
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.
