Confined to a prison cell, thricemurderer Pascual Duarte recounts his journey from a violent childhood to a life of pain and misfortune juxtaposing tableaus of country poverty against scenes of bare brutality, Nobel laureate Camilo Jos&#233eacute Cela crafts a powerful meditation on cruelty and anomie.&#160The Family of Pascual Duarte follows his upbringing in the poor Spanish province of Extremadura to his eventual imprisonmentand impending death sentence. Death permeates Duartes world his father&#8217s grotesque death to rabies, his young brother&#8217s drowning in an oil vat, and the loss of his children. But it is his wife&#8217s sudden death that condemns him to the darkest path when, losing all faith and driven by blind revenge, he kills her souteneur. Now an alien to the world around him, Pascual Duarte resigns himself to his bloodied fate&#8212yet never gives up his search for peace.Camilo Jos&#233 Cela has been recognized as one of the pioneers of Spanish literary realism, and his masterwork The Family of Pascual Duarte proves the power of his prose. The novel, which birthed the transgressive and groundbreaking tremendismo movement, roils with emotion and unflinching inhumanity, painting the Spanish countryside in bloodshed, eroticism, and an unshakeable feeling of grief. Blending the political with the personal with the philosophic, the result is an unparalleled exploration of the fraught relationship between man and society, and the past&#8217s inescapable hold...

Binding: Paperback;166 pages; Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press; Classification: FA; Weight: 318 g; Dimensions: 139 x 217 x 12

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