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Title: LA Colmena by Camilo Jose Cela ISBN: 8-4376079-4-9 Publisher: COMERCIAL GRUPO ANAYA Pub. Date: 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: La Biblia de la posguerra
Comment: With his characteristic ironic humor Mr. Cela centers "La Colmena" in the most dramatic period of Spain's 20th century history: the postwar. The characters are exquisitely molded into poor wretches, intransigent manipulators, neurotic business owners, garrulous salesmen, diffident bourgeois and aloof poets. The synergy is powerful because of its contrasts: each a survivor of the war and condemned to lead an egregious life. However, Cela's main theme is not just survival or improvisation, but imagination. The cafe dwellers are mostly penniless intellectuals hoping to trade a labored sonnet for a cup of coffee; or forlorn creatures longing for lost (and never-known) ones. An admiral of modern Spanish literature, Cela is a nobel prize laureate.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book!
Comment: Those who try to write the names of the characters down or even try to center the novel in any particular place completely miss the point of this novel. This is a novel about a community, a wolrd, where names and places are irrelevant. The only relevant thing is the city, Madrid, and the struggle of the people we read about in this novel. A wonderful masterpiece, a fast-paced cinema-like novel that beautifully portrays the suffering during the years of Franco's regime
Rating: 3
Summary: A book full of destinies
Comment: an interesting book about people and their efforts to survive in Madrid during the second world war. The heart of the story is Dona Rosa's cafe, where all different kinds of people meet, laugh, argue, cry and generally having a hard time. It is interesting to read about all the different destinies in this difficult world, but the problem was that there were too many people, I lost track after a while. An advice to other readers is to write down the names of all characters and a short personal description. After a while, you will realize that they all are connected in one way or another.
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Title: Tiempo De Silencio by Luis Martin-Santos, Luis M. Santos ISBN: 8432203777 Publisher: Editorial Seix Barral, S.A. Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: La familia de Pascual Duarte by Camilo Jose Cela, Harold L. Boudreau (Editor), John W. Kronik (Editor) ISBN: 0135283078 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 01 February, 1961 List Price(USD): $24.33 |
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Title: The Hive by Camilo Jose Cela, J. M. Cohen, Arturo Barea ISBN: 1564782689 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Carmen Laforet: Nada by Carmen Laforet ISBN: 8423309894 Publisher: Destino Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: El árbol de la ciencia by Pio Baroja, Pia Baroja ISBN: 8420634018 Publisher: Alianza Editorial Pub. Date: 1967 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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