by Ana María Matute · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432021442
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«Pequeño teatro» is the novel by Ana María Matute, published by Planeta in paperback (221 pages, in Spanish).
A narrative that alternates the small world of a puppet theater run by a kind old man with the life of a city whose inhabitants reveal miseries, hypocrisy and clumsy feelings. Around a helpless adolescent, those human passions stir, becoming symbolic and animated by a poetic breath.
The novel won the Planeta Prize in 1954. This edition belongs to the Popular Planeta collection (number 35).
For readers of 20th-century Spanish fiction and literary classics with symbolic characters.
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.
