The Family of Pascual Duartenovel by Cela

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  • discussed in biography ( in Cela, Camilo José )

    Spanish writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989. He is perhaps best known for his novel La familia de Pascual Duarte (1942; The Family of Pascual Duarte) and is considered to have given new life to Spanish literature. His literary production—primarily novels, short narratives, and travel diaries—is characterized by...

  • Spanish literature ( in Spanish literature: The novel )

    ...were monothematic and repetitive and that insulted the vanquished, showing them as animals. Psychologically perceptive despite its violence, La familia de Pascual Duarte (1942; The Family of Pascual Duarte) of Camilo José Cela popularized a harsh, sordid, unsentimental realism (tempered by expressionistic distortion) known as ...

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