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This work is a study of the "Gallican Trilogy" written by Camilo Jose Cela, consisting of his novels Marzurca para dos muertos (1983), La cruz de San Andres (1994), and Madera de boj (1999). In contrast to the treatment given by Cela to Galizia, his homeland, in some of his previous works, these three novels, all written in the last ten years of his life, he focuses on the three different environments (rural, urban and maritime) as well as in the traditional and modern cultural and idiosyncratic patterns that characterize Galizia, a culturally rich, folkloric and legendary province in northwestern Spain. ... Read more

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English translation by John Forrester. Colour Photo by Paul Pietzsch ... Read more

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Crónica gallega de una España...
Para aquellos de nosotros fieles a nuestros voceros literarios e históricos, La Cruz de San Andres se presenta como una crónica de la España gallega sólo en sus detalles puesto a que desenmascara una rica variedad de personajes que son alumbrados tanto por su papel en la vida de la protagonista como por sus aventuras y particularidades.

El libro merecedor del Premio Planeta por un escritor luego galardonado con el Premio Nobel forma parte de una tradición literaria que deja al lector buscando la siguiente novela del mismo escritor.

La manera en que esta compuesto el texto tiene algunas similitudes con el libro de Gabriel Garcia Marques:"El otoño del Patriarca" en el sentido de que vuelve a los mismos circulos y señala brevemente eventos históricos.

Es un libro que se disfruta y pasa a complementar las propuestas escritas españolas. ... Read more

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Voices on the war
Camilo Jose Cela is, to say the least, the greatest contemporary spanish language perfectionist to use the language at its worst and its best at the same time, even at the same paragraph (!). MAZURCA PARA DOS MUERTOS is a vivid example of that ilogic sentence, so you have to survive its 300,000 words of chaotic verbalia to proove it.

Let's see. If you are a member of the Real Academia de la Lengua (that is the honorific comitee that stablished spanish-spoken rules and tools), Jose Cela, one of its most famous accolites, is a genious rebel whose capabilities are good enough to write a novel in a perfect-grammar but chooses to misspelled everything just for fun. Then, if you are a regular civil reader on a spanish spoken country (like me), he is the funniest Nobel Prize winner around.

The novel goes around the Spanish Civil War on a fascinating but hard line that needs some big focusing effort on the first 50 pages. After the first blast goes by, those voices are here, inside, right into your head. And the bloody-thirsty war suddenly becomes speedy, catchy, even erotic.

On a brilliant touch (one of the funniest in the novel, too), Cela recalls the "nine signs of the mother******". Two examples: the flute style voice and the shortness of extremities. Feel familiar? Well, to find out the other seven you have to check out the mirror this good lecture. Jose Cela is on a trail these days accused of rewriting someone's prior novel. After the Jurors deliberate they may want to sue him for MAZURCA PARA DOS MUERTOS, a sublime journey that rewrites Spain's violent and contradictory soul. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on October 25, 1999. The length of the article is 673 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Homenaje a Cela.(Camilo José Cela, autor)(TT: Homage to Cela.)(TA: Camilo José Cela, author)
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 25, 1999
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Page: 28

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Sacristanes pecadores y alucinados, hombres lobo, pescadores de sardinas y cazadores de ballenas, curas, meigas, sordomudos, suicidas, choronas, curanderas, fornicadores, sirenas, virgenes martirizadas las vidas y andanzas de todos ellos acompanan en un continuo fluir a naufragos, desaparecidos y ahogados, habitantes que danzan, como suspendidos, en ese territorio que esta entre la vida y la muerte, o quizas mas alla de la vida y la muerte. Madera de Boj nos situa en aquel lugar que los romanos entendieron como el fin del mundo, el Finis Terrae y, desde alli, Camilo Jose Cela dirige su mirada maestra hacia la fachada maritima gallega convirtiendose en puntual notario de la capacidad destructora de la Costa de la Muerte: da fe de los naufragios porque al tiempo se le puede dar marcha atras si se le mece con inteligencia y con carino. Con una prosa magnifica e innovadora, Camilo Jose Cela vuelve a sorprendernos con un viaje por una Galicia que nace del alma y vive en el alma; un viaje salpicado por el verdoso tinte de la lujuria y siempre pasado por el filtro del humor y del amor. Para Victor Garcia de la Concha, en Madera de Boj alcanza la narratividad lirica de Camilo Jose Cela su cima mas alta. ... Read more