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.
Camilo José Cela Books
Camilo José Cela is celebrated for his rich and intensive prose, which, with restrained compassion, forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability. His writing stands out for its captivating style and profound insights into the human condition. Cela delves into the complexities of life with an unflinching honesty. His literary legacy is marked by his ability to engage readers through compelling narratives and a provocative worldview.







San Camilo, 1936
- 327 pages
- 12 hours of reading
The narrator, twenty years old, faces the dangers, hardships, and uncertainty of the Spanish Civil War
The Family of Pascual Duarte
- 166 pages
- 6 hours of reading
Cela was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in October 1989, and this novel is considered by many to be his masterpiece. It is the story of an ignorant Castillian peasant and multiple murderer, and it tells of the savage impulses behind his crimes and his redeeming characteristics.
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.
El asesinato del perdedor
- 238 pages
- 9 hours of reading
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».
Judíos, moros y cristianos
- 308 pages
- 11 hours of reading
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.
Garito de hospicianos
- 265 pages
- 10 hours of reading
Memorias, entendimientos y voluntades
- 375 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Colección Austral - 421: La Colmena
- 447 pages
- 16 hours of reading
La obra se estructura en seis capítulos y un epílogo, donde cada capítulo incluye secuencias breves que desarrollan episodios entrelazados. Este enfoque fragmenta el argumento en múltiples anécdotas, formando un conjunto de vidas interconectadas, similar a las celdas de una colmena. El contexto es Madrid en 1943, durante la posguerra, con un espacio limitado pero una variedad de personajes que ofrecen una visión social coral. Aunque aparecen alrededor de trescientos personajes, son escasos los de clases acomodadas y de la clase obrera, predominando la clase media baja y la pequeña burguesía en declive, cuyas ilusiones son engañosas y cuya vida se describe como una "mañana eternamente repetida". La novela es la primera parte de una serie titulada "Caminos inciertos". Aunque el autor busca reflejar la realidad con precisión, no es completamente neutral. En su mayoría, utiliza una técnica objetivista, mostrando y describiendo sin profundizar en los personajes. Sin embargo, en ocasiones adopta una perspectiva omnisciente, comentando irónicamente las actitudes de los personajes.



