by Ana María Matute · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408040309
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«Pequeño teatro» is the novel by Ana María Matute, published by Planeta in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
A puppeteer moves his puppets in a city where a helpless adolescent and other inhabitants reveal their miseries, hypocrisies and contradictions. Ana María Matute's prose gives these characters symbolic value without stripping them of humanity.
The novel won the Premio Planeta in 1954. This edition, published in 2001, belongs to the Booket Logista collection.
It will appeal to readers of Spanish fiction and twentieth-century classics.
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.
