Camilo Jose Cela - The Family of Pascual Duarte (pdf)

Camilo Jose Cela - The Family of Pascual Duarte (Little, Brown, 1964). 166 pages.

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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.

Review

"After Don Quixote, probably the most widely read novel in Spanish." --New York Times

"A most memorable book . . . The Family of Pascual Duarte sets its author in place as a contemporary of Celine and Malaparte and a follower of the Spanish picaresque tradition." --New York Times Book Review

"Cela prefers the weird, the apparently meaningless and amorphous. The world of his novels has been likened to that of Hieronymus Bosch and Brueghel; he sees man as a prisoner in a forbidding universe where chaos and imperfection always defeat the idealist." --Paul West