by Juan García Hortelano · Punto de Lectura · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466300162
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«Mucho cuento» is the short story collection by Juan García Hortelano, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (352 pages, in Spanish).
Twenty stories set in a besieged and bombed Madrid during the war, with children losing their childhood and postwar priests clinging to old methods. The work mixes disillusionment, irony and absurd humor in scenes like 'Carne de chocolate', the sexual dizziness of 'Preparativos de boda' and the workplace metaphor of 'La oficina invadida'.
The work originally appeared in 1987; this Punto de Lectura edition was published in July 2000.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction and of stories set during the Civil War and its aftermath.
Juan García Hortelano was a Spanish writer. He was born in Madrid. His father was a doctor. When the Spanish Civil War broke out, he was sent with his siblings to Cuenca, only returning to Madrid in 1937 where he lived with his maternal grandparents. The libraries at school and home turned him into an avid reader. Following the war, he entered college in 1941, later studying law at Madrid University. He joined the Civil Service in 1953. Throughout his life, he dedicated himself to writing with fervour and discipline without abandoning his administrative job in Madrid. He cultivated friendships with writers and intellectuals of his generation: Juan Benet, Carlos Barral, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Juan Marsé and Ángel González.
