About this title: La obra de Cela llena gran parte de la literatura espanola de los cincuenta ultimos anos del siglo XX. Desde el principio, y sin necesidad de someterse a ningun control ideologico, supo separarse de la Espana oficial y escribir unas obras criticas que pusieron de manifiesto el desanimo y la miseria economica y social en que habia sumido al pais el ...
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Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780679767534ISBN:0679767533
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Paperback Edition-Average Wear-Few Markings-Written in Spanish. Text in Spanish. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Castalia
Date Published: 2003-01-01
ISBN-13:9788470394362ISBN:8470394363
Description: VG Very Good. Softcover. Spanish language. Retired From Library, typical library markings. Some highlighting, but does not obscure text. Otherwise, Book is very good with no creases to cover and all pages clean. Binding is tight and square. read more
Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
ISBN-13:9780679767534ISBN:0679767533
Description: Good. 0679767533 Former library item may have library binding and show stamps, stickers or other marks. Items not meeting quality expectations may be returned. Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. read more
Binding: Decorative Cloth Bds in Dj.
Publisher: Editorial Noguer, Barcelona
Date Published: 1971
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. 275 Pgs. In Spanish. Mas interesante por La nota a la primera edicion (1951), . segunda edicion [n.d. ]; . tecera edicion [1957] y. quarta edicion [1968] por Cela. read more
Edition: First Edition Thus Issued
Binding: Gilt-Stamped Leather Hardcover
Publisher: A Publication Of Editorial Seix Barral, Barcelona Spain
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9788432222498ISBN:8432222496
Description: Very Good. Not Issued With Dustjackets. 322 Numbered Pages. 5" x 8" The nearly pristine textblock of this quite good-looking leatherbound hardcover first edition (thus issued) is clean, tight, square, carries very faint highlighting to two early leaves, five instances of initialing marginalia, an owner's stamp to the pagehead, rear endpaper and one text page, mailing labels to the front endpaper and title page covering ownership, and a small sticker-removal scar to the front pastedown endpaper. ... read more
Description: Fair. 8437607949 A book in acceptable condition may show one or several of the following characteristics: minor waterdamage, moderate or excessive highlighting/underlining, or heavy wear. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Editorial Castalia, S. A
Date Published: 01/12/2000
ISBN-13:9788470394362ISBN:8470394363
Description: Used-Good. Book in good or better condition. Dispatched same day from warehouse. Please email with any questions for quick response. read more
"If you believe life is a marriage of pieces of individual cloths sown into a greater tapestry, this book has several short stories all around the same area that creates an enjoyable glimpse into all the levels of a community"
"Welcome to post-Civil War Spain; this book is great and was banned throughout Europe years ago. Cela weaves over 100 characters in but you won't get lost, this is an experienced writer who knows how to lead the reader. Brilliant...astounding...those descriptions work well. Read it."
"I gave up the Spanish edition and read the Norwegian instead - too many characters, too confusing in Spanish. (But I liked the Spanish movie, with Cela himself as an inventor de palabras. Does that count?)
Reading it in Norwegian was a mistake, by the way. It's translated by Norway's most overrated translator, Kjell Risvik."
"If I may be so crass as to compare the narrative of a Nobel laureate with a popular movie, it reminded me of Pulp Fiction: The Hive is made up of hundreds of short sections (many less than a page), not all of which are told in order, most of which are quite dark, and many of which are left unresolved. There are so many characters that it is sometimes difficult to keep them all straight until a detail jogs one's memory.
If there is one message that stuck in my mind from this book, it is that the poverty of Madrid in the 1940s drove many young women to prostitution. One aged prostitute also complains about the loose young women who do it for free, and thus take "the bread from the mouths of others."
Although there are many characters, the final chapter focuses on Martin Marco. I did not understand the ending: if I were more familiar with Franco's regime, would I understand why Marco was wanted by the police? Was it because he had been recognized, yet unable to produce his papers the night before? Or is it meant to end on such a mysterious note?"
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