by Juan García Hortelano · Castalia Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788470395444
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«Tormenta de verano» is the novel by Juan García Hortelano, published by Castalia Ediciones in paperback (436 pages, in Spanish).
The first-person narrative follows the moral crisis of a man in his forties when the body of a young woman appears on the beach of the colony where he spends his summers. In parallel with the investigation of the event, his relationships with family and friends, his parties, dialogues and a marked egocentric tendency are portrayed.
1989 edition with biographical and critical introduction, notes and bibliography by Antonio A. Gómez Yebra, in the Clásicos Castalia collection (no. 174). The novel won the first Formentor Prize.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction and literature students interested in the narrative of the Generation of '50.
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.
