Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
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
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Espasa-Calpe Argentina, Buenos Aires
Date Published: 1955
Description: 12mo. In Spanish. 148 pages. Coleccion Austral 1252. Spine wrinkled, staining on back cover, top corner of front fly clipped, pages browned, else a good copy. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Continental Book Company
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9788423325122ISBN:8423325121
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Planeta Pub Corp
Date Published: 2001-12-01
ISBN-13:9788423325122ISBN:8423325121
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9788423325122. read more
Description: Acceptable. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Continental Book Company
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9788423325122ISBN:8423325121
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ediciones Destino
Date Published: 1967
Description: Good. There is underlining and writing inside. Dust jacket has some wear to it. Photos: We now have a scanner in-shop and can provide you with a picture of this item if you do not currently see one. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc, New York
Date Published: 1961
Description: Near Fine. Covers very clean, minimal shelfwear, corners very slightly worn. Pages clean, bright, tight in binding, unmarked. Preface in English, Spanish-English vocabulary at back of book. The entire text is in Spanish only. Essential reading, about which one source (adapted) says: "This novel is one of those that began a genre which...linked with the Spanish realist tradition: [it combines elements of] the picaresque, the naturalism of the nineteenth century and the social novels of the ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York
Date Published: 1961
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7 3/4"-9 3/4" Tall. 175 pages. Edited and with a preface in English by Harold Boudreau & John Kronik. "Temas de Discusi¢n Literaria" and Spanish-English vocabulary at the rear of book. Tight binding. clean pages. A touch of light wear to wraps, otherwise better than Very Good. Previous owner's name neatly inked to inside cover. No underlining. No highlighting, No notes in the margins. Not ex-library. An excellent condition. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts, NY
Date Published: 1961
Description: VERY GOOD+ As new except for rubbing to spine edges and occasional light pencil underlining and English word for more unusual words. Post Civil War fiction. Preface in English. Text in Spanish-Editors Boudreau & Kronik. Olive cover. read more
Edition: Hardcover Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Ediciones Del Zodiaco, Barcelona
Date Published: 1946
Description: Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. Cuarta Edicion (Fourth Edition). Prologo de Gregorio Maranon. Spine sunned. Book is worn, ownership marking on front free endpaper. Dust jacket is worn, with chips and closed tears. Text in Spanish. read more
Edition: Not Given
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Las Americas Publishing Company, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1965
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. "Camilo Jose Cela nacio en Iria Fluvia pequena aldea en la provincia de la Coruna de padre espanol y de madre inglesa. Academico de numero de la Real Academia de la Lengua Espanola, Cela es uno de los maximos exponentes de la litertura espanola contemoranea. La publicacion de LA FAMILIA DE PASCUAL DUARTE produjo verdadera sensacion y dio pauta a la novelistica de hoy dia. " This book has 144 pages. The text is written in SPANISH. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Emece Editores, S. A, Buenos Aires
Date Published: 1945
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 187 pp. The pages are uncut. The lighest of rubbing to the cover edges; the binding is tight and square, and the text is clean. The jacket is very slightly scuffed at the head and foot of the spine. No. 23 in "Coleccion Horreo. " read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Destino, Barcelona
Date Published: 1955
Description: Octavo, 204pp. First edition, later printing. Near fine in publisher's cloth-covered boards with very slight bumping to top and bottom spine. In a good example of the printed dust jacket with edgewear, small pieces missing from corners, lower spine, and lower rear panel. Inscribed by Cela on half-title "A Tony Bonner, con un abrazo de su (? ) amigo, Camilo José Cela Palma de Mallorca, Junio, 58. " read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Coleccion austral
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9789509216402ISBN:9509216402
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. A bit on underlining on a few pages of this otherwise solid book; covers in great shape. Text in Spanish. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
"Novela que explora la psique del español pobre a principios de la guerra civil española. Cela fue de los pocos autores serios que quedaron en España y pudieron publicar bajo el permiso del regimen Franquista. Por lo tanto, se remonta en la tradición literaria española empleando el estilo de la novela picarense y el constumbrismo/tremendismo. Emplea, ademas una ambieguedad en cuanto a la culpabilidad moral del personage vis a vis la sociedad. El lector, deberá decidir si le cree a Pascual su declaracion inicial, "Yo, señor, no soy malo. Aunque no me falten razones para serlo.""
"Precaria novelita, caricatura en necio del habla campesina española, con una narrador que se hace el tonto sin entender que lo es y alardea de pícaro sin la menor gracia."
"I read this in one of my Spanish classes in college. I am sure my poor translation did not help but I was horrified by the protogonist. He was a very mad, scary individual and I couldn't get past him/his actions to appreciate or enjoy the book."
"camilo josé cela, spain's fifth nobel laureate, is perhaps best known for two novels, the hive (la colmena) and the family of pascual duarte (la familia de pascual duarte). the latter of these is a magnificent work of fiction he composed when he was only 26 years old. the family of pascual duarte relates the story of a castilian peasant serving a prison term for multiple murders.
the story is told from the perspective of duarte himself, as he spent his time incarcerated writing his life story and recalling what led him to commit these heinous crimes. at the beginning and ending of the novel, cela includes letters from the transcriber of duarte's memoir and the prison chaplain (amongst others), explaining more about duarte's character and how his papers came to be published. while the novel is fantastically composed, these extra literary stylings add a certain charm and authenticity to the story.
while pascal duarte had killed with little remorse, cela is able to convey duarte's humanity in such a convincing manner that one cannot help but have sympathy for the convicted murderer. cela portrays duarte (or rather, duarte, thus, portrays himself) as having endured many hardships, some unimaginably debilitating, and while we are not expected to condone the homicides, we can almost understand the mindset and emotional state that led up to his reprehensible acts. it is no small feat of craft that cela was able to create a main character whose actions are entirely deplorable, yet depict him in such a way that it stirs compassion in the reader. the family of pascual duarte is a short, yet riveting tale, almost flawlessly composed, rich with insights into human frailty and desperation. it is a truly stunning read.
"the inhabitants of cities live with their backs to the truth, and oftentimes they are not even aware that only a couple of leagues away, in the middle of the plain, a country man may be thinking about them while he packs up his gear, folds his fishing rod and picks up his little wicker basket with its six or seven eels inside.""
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