The Family of Pascual Duarte

Camilo Jose Cela; Anthony Kerrigan

ISBN 10: 0316134325 / ISBN 13: 9780316134323

Published by Little Brown & Co, 1990

About this Item

DJ in archival cover.

Seller Inventory # 008001

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Family of Pascual Duarte
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316134325
• ISBN 13: 9780316134323
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

Cela was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in October 1989, and this novel is considered by many to be his masterpiece. It is the story of an ignorant Castillian peasant and multiple murderer, and it tells of the savage impulses behind his crimes and his redeeming characteristics.

Review

A most memorable book . . . The Family of Pascual Duarte sets its author in place as a contemporary of Celine and Malaparte and a follower of the Spanish picaresque tradition.

Cela prefers the weird, the apparently meaningless and amorphous. The world of his novels has been likened to that of Hieronymus Bosch and Brueghel; he sees man as a prisoner in a forbidding universe where chaos and imperfection always defeat the idealist. --Paul West

Most books have to wait to become classics; but everything about The Family of Pascual Duarte its conception, its starkness, its restraint, the enormity of its theme made it from the very beginning a classic. --Alastair Reid

"After "Don Quixote", probably the most widely read novel in Spanish." -- "The New York Times"

"After "Don Quixote," probably the most widely read novel in Spanish."--"The New York Times"