Camilo Jose Cela, Author, Patricia Haugaard, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Patricia Haugaard. New Directions $25.95 (284p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1497-1
More ambitious and far-reaching than his Mazurka for Two Dead Men, Cela's dizzying portrait of life during the Spanish Civil War is a considerable achievement. Like other novels by this rebellious and adroit Nobel laureate, the book's...
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Camilo Jose Cela, Author, Patricia Haugaard, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $21.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1222-9
The Spanish Civil War intrudes almost casually on the characters' picaresque doings in Cela's amorphous, bawdy novel, first published in Spain in 1983. Set in the mountainous region of Galicia and redolent with the Spanish countryside's wild beauty...
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Camilo Jose Cela, Author, Martin Sokolinsky, Translator, Lucile C. Charlebois, Introduction by , trans. from the Spanish by Martin Sokolinsky. Dalkey Archive $13.95 (249p) ISBN 978-1-56478-341-7
Among the most experimental of Cela’s works, this audacious and provocative novel tells the story of the 1881 shootout at the OK Corral from the perspective of Wendell Liverpool Espana, the uneducated, bastard son of a prostitute. Structured...
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