by Camilo José Cela · Bibliotex · tapa dura · ISBN 9788481303094
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«San Camilo 1936» is the novel by Camilo José Cela, published by Bibliotex in hardcover (318 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is set in Madrid during the three days before the military uprising of July 1936 that started the Civil War. A narrator reflects in monologues on his life and that of those around him, among civil servants, pious women, prostitutes and middle classes moving through cafés, attics and brothels. It is a work of narrative experimentation, successor to «La colmena».
2001 edition with a prologue by Francisco Umbral, in the collection «Las mejores novelas en castellano del siglo XX». The work was originally published in 1969; its full title is «Vísperas, festividad y octava de San Camilo del año 1936 en Madrid».
Aimed at readers of Spanish literature and twentieth-century classics, interested in experimental narrative and in the portrait of the days before the Civil War.
Camilo José Cela y Trulock, 1st Marquess of Iria Flavia was a Spanish novelist, poet, story writer and essayist associated with the Generation of '36 movement.
