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Requiem for Fratricide
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BOOK WORLD
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2 / 1990 |
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Kristina Bonilla
Kristina Bonilla is the author of the novel El Lute (The Last
Flight) and coauthor of Espana: Historia y Arte and is a
syndicated writer for several European publications. |
LA FAMILIA DE PASCUAL DUARTE
Camilo José Cela
Appleton-Century-Crofts, N.Y.: 1961
pp. 175.
MAZURCA PARA DOS MUERTOS
Camilo José Cela
Seix Barral, Barcelona, 1983
pp. 266.
Spanish writer Camilo José Cela's first novel, The Family of Pascual Duarte, which was singled out by the Swedish Academy in awarding its 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature is dedicated to "my enemies who have helped my career so much." Judging by this recent accolade, he has every reason to be grateful to them.
Readers familiar with Cela would likely be nonplussed by the downright hostile tone of several articles that appeared in the national press commenting on the award. It wasn't so much his literary work as his perceived behavior that was the basis of these criticisms. One suspects that the writers have neither read Cela nor spoken with Spanish literary critics.
Cela, they would have us believe, is a café celebrity, a notorious womanizer whose behavior, according to one critic, "rivals the self regard and outrageousness of Salvador Dali" (yet no examples are citied). Furthermore, another critic tells us, "he's lived in a very commodious relationship with the Franco regime."
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