Search Results

“... Camilo Jose Cela, the recent Nobel Prizewinner, remarked a few years ago that Spain remained ‘excessive’ in all things. ‘This country either destroys you or it puts you on its altars.’ Spanish excesses, the contrasts of landscape and architecture, the sensuality and austerity that exist side by side, often in the same person, have long appealed to outsiders ...”

“... do you possibly keep track of so many names, so much intrigue? It’s hard to imagine a reader of Camilo JoséCela’s masterpiece, The Hive, who hasn’t asked this question – who hasn’t wondered, after twenty or thirty pages, whether or how to go on. Do you just accept the confusion? Or, alternatively, keep ...”

“... writers like Max Aub, Ramón Sender and Arturo Barea, Treglown cites the Nobel-winning novelist Camilo JoséCela, who stayed in Spain and was allowed to produce shocking material that challenged Francoist – especially Christian – values (though his work was sometimes censored). Later in the Franco period, some ...”