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The Family of Pascual Duarte has various narrators, the main one being Duarte, who recounts his history in a rural dialect. The protagonist is from Extremadura and his life unfolds between 1882 and 1937, years in which the social and political structures of Spain were marked by extreme instability.
- Camilo José Cela
- 1942
The Family of Pascual Duarte. Camilo José Cela, Anthony Kerrigan, Alev Güçlü (Translator) 3.75. 15,211 ratings1,254 reviews. Cela was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in October 1989, and this novel is considered by many to be his masterpiece.
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Sep 5, 2023 · The Family of Pascual Duarte is a novel about a seemingly ordinary man of rural Spain in the early twentieth century. It purports to be the confessions of Pascual...
Aug 20, 2020 · The family of Pascual Duarte by Cela, Camilo José, 1916-2002. Publication date 1972 Topics Novela española -- Siglo XX, Novela española -- Traducciones ...
Oct 11, 2022 · The Family of Pascual Duarte has often been associated with Albert Camus’s The Stranger, published the same year. Cela’s novel includes meaningless violence and an apparent lack of morality, which can be easily linked to the works of existentialists like Camus.
The Family of Pascual Duarte. by Camilo José Cela. THE LITERARY WORK. A novel set in the impoverished Estrermadura region of west central Spain from the 1880s to 1942; published in Spanish (as La familia de Pascual Duarte) in 1942; in English in 1946. SYNOPSIS.
"The Family of Pascual Duarte" is the story of Pascual Duarte--a Spanish peasant born into a brutal world of poverty, hatred, and depravity--as told from...
