Camilo José Cela Libri

Christ versus Arizona turns on the events in 1881 that surrounded the shootout at the OK Corral, where Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Virgil and Morgan Earp fought the Clantons and the McLaurys. Set against a backdrop of an Arizona influenced by the Mexican Revolution and the westward expansion of the United States, the story is a bravura performance by the 1989 Nobel Prize-winning author. A monologue by the naive, unreliable, and uneducated Wendell L. Espana, the book weaves together hundreds of characters and a torrent of interconnected anecdotes, some true, some fabricated. Wendell s story is a document of the vast array of ills that welcomed the dawning of the twentieth century, ills that continue to shape our world in the new millennium."

Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1942, è la storia di un contadino figlio di un alcolizzato. Una vita perduta, offuscata da un delitto, consumata in carcere nell'attesa della condanna a morte. Vittima di un destino inesorabile, Pascual Duarte è la migliore delle sue vittime e i suoi delitti sono una specie di astratta e barbara, ma innegabile, giustizia, l'unica risposta che conosce al tradimento e alla menzogna. Un solitario mortificato dalla violenza che porta in sé i germi di affetti che la vita continuamente gli mortifica. Una rivisitazione - come rilevava Calvino - in forma più amara e moderna, del filone picaresco della letteratura spagnola e un'opera che risolve nella sua desolata poesia alcune delle più segrete ragioni dell'umana sofferenza.

At the end of the Spanish Civil War, Tanis Gamuzo sets out to avenge the death of his brother, who was abducted and killed during the war, in a work set in a backward rural community, by the 1989 Nobel Prize winner.

The narrator, twenty years old, faces the dangers, hardships, and uncertainty of the Spanish Civil War

Complete and uncensored in English for the very first time, a fragmented, daringly irreverent depiction of decadence and decay in Franco's Spain written by the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The translator Anthony Kerrigan compared Camilo José Cela, the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, to Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Curzio Malaparte—all “ferocious writers, truculent, badly spoken, even foulmouthed.” However provocative and disturbing, Cela’s novels are also flat-out dazzling, their sentences as rigorous as they are riotous, lodging like knives in the reader’s mind. Cela called himself a proponent of “uglyism,” of “nothingism.” But he has the knack, to quote another critic, Américo Castro, of deploying those “nothings and lacks” to construct beauty. The Hive is set over the course of a few days in the Madrid of 1943, not long after the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the regime of General Francisco Franco was at its most oppressive. The book includes more than three hundred characters whose comings and goings it tracks to hypnotic effect. Scabrous, scandalous, and profane, The Hive is a virtuosic group portrait of a wounded and sick society.

Historia de un joven que se ahorco desesperado ante el acoso de una sociedad represiva y hostil, El asesinato del perdedor ?primera de las novelas escritas por Cela después de obtener el Premio Nobel de Literatura? constituye el nuevo e insuperable retrato de una España negra que todavía pervive.

Camilo José Cela emprende con este Diccionario secreto la necesaria y urgente tarea de rescate y conservación del lenguaje vivo destinado a recoger las voces que ostentan una filiación venérea, directa o indirecta, expresa o tácita. El tomo I reúne las pertenecientes a las «series Coleo y afines», mientras que el tomo II, agrupa las relacionadas con las «series Pis y afines».

En este libro Cela se lanza al camino para recorrer la histórica y tradicional Castilla la Vieja, recreándose en el paisaje y el paisanaje, en el habla popular, en sus decires y coplas, en sus historias cotidianas, en sus perspectivas vitales, en los pequeños accidentes geográficos y en la historia.