by Ana María Matute · Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432087325
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«Pequeño teatro» is the novel by Ana María Matute, published by Planeta in hardcover (288 pages, in Spanish).
The story begins with a puppet theatre run by a kind old man, a metaphor for a city whose inhabitants expose their miseries, hypocrisies and hatreds. Around a helpless adolescent, ambition, cruelty and deceptive dreams stir; the characters become symbols without ceasing to be human.
Winner of the Premio Planeta 1954, the work was originally published that same year; this Planeta edition dates from 1988.
A classic of twentieth-century Spanish literature, for readers interested in the narrative of Ana María Matute.
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.
