Womack James - The Hive - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Complete and uncensored in English for the very first time a fragmented daringly irreverent depiction of decadence and decay in Franco's Spain written by the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The translator Anthony Kerrigan compared Camilo Jos Cela the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Louis - Ferdinand C line and Curzio Malaparte all ferocious writers truculent badly spoken even foulmouthed. However provocative and disturbing Cela's novels are also flat - out dazzling their sentences as rigorous as they are riotous lodging like knives in the reader's mind. Cela called himself a proponent of uglyism of nothingism. But he has the knack to quote another critic Am rico Castro of deploying those nothings and lacks to construct beauty. The Hive is set over the course of a few days in the Madrid of 1943, not long after the end of the Spanish Civil War when the regime of General Francisco Franco was at its most oppressive. The book includes more than three hundred characters whose comings and goings it tracks to hypnotic effect. Scabrous scandalous and profane The Hive is a virtuosic group portrait of a wounded and sick society.
Title: The Hive
Author(s): Womack James
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781681376158
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/7/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction