by Ana María Matute · Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423309580
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«Los niños tontos» is the short story collection by Ana María Matute, published by Destino in paperback (82 pages, in Spanish).
Twenty-one brief stories featuring solitary, mysterious children who live in their own world, apart from the adult world. Ana María Matute combines a poetic, dreamlike gaze with the harshness of childhood, where fantasy merges with solitude and incomprehension.
Los niños tontos was originally published in 1956; this 1991 Destino edition belongs to the Destinolibro collection (no. 51).
A classic of Spanish short fiction, suitable for readers interested in stories with a poetic atmosphere and in the Generation of '50.
Ana María Matute Ausejo was a Spanish writer and member of the Real Academia Española. In 1959, she received the Premio Nadal for Primera memoria. The third woman to receive the Cervantes Prize for her literary oeuvre, she is considered one of the foremost novelists of the posguerra, the period immediately following the Spanish Civil War.
