The hive
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Contributors
Womack, James William, 1979- translator.
Published
New York : New York Review Books, [2023].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xxviii, 262 pages ; 21 cm.
Status
Castroville Branch - Adult Fiction
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Published
New York : New York Review Books, [2023].
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Translation of: La Colmena.
Description
"The translator Anthony Kerrigan has compared the work of Camilo José Cela, the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, to that of Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Curzio Malaparte. These are, Kerrigan writes, "ferocious writers, truculent, badly spoken, foul mouthed." However provocative and disturbing, they are also flat-out dazzling as writers, whose sentences, as rigorous as riotous, lodge like knives in the reader's mind. Cela called himself a proponent of "uglyism," of "nothingism." But he has the knack, the critic Américo Castro reminds us, 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 and 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, this virtuosic group portrait of a wounded and sick society was first published in Buenos Aires in 1950 because in Spain it could not be published at all. This new translation by James Womack is the first in English to present Cela's masterpiece in uncensored form"--,Provided by publisher.
Language
In English, translated from the Spanish.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Cela, C. J., & Womack, J. W. (2023). The hive . New York Review Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Cela, Camilo José, 1916-2002 and James William Womack. 2023. The Hive. New York Review Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Cela, Camilo José, 1916-2002 and James William Womack. The Hive New York Review Books, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Cela, Camilo José, and James William Womack. The Hive New York Review Books, 2023.
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