San Camilo, 1936 - The Eve, Feast, and Octave of St. Camillus of the Year 1936 in Madrid

"Cela continues to anticipate and outlast his peers. Few contemporary writers can match his range, verbal richness, and purity of means. Few have given better evidence of dwelling in awfulness while caressing beauty. No other artist--except Picasso--has tapped such energies at the age when most gentlemen tend their gardens. Camilo Jose Cela approaches dusk with a steadfast gaze that only a few writers of genius can turn upon the face of chaos." --Eduardo Gonzalez, "The Nobel Prize Annual 1989"

About the author

Camilo José Cela

Summary

This is the first English translation of a work by the recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature. Set on the eve of the Spanish Civil War, the novel follows a young student's attempts to sort out his life and career in the midst of the turmoil overtaking his country.

Product details

• Authors: Camilo Josecela, Cela, Camilo Jos Cela, Camilo Jose Cela, Camilo José Cela
• Assisted by: John Polt (Translation)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.10.1991
• EAN: 9780822311966
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1196-6
• No. of pages: 327
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 234 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 522 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic