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ISBN-10: 0811228258
ISBN-13: 9780811228251
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 02/26/2019
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.10" W, 1.00" H

Mazurka for Two Dead Men

Translator: Patricia Haugaard

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Price: $18.95

Overview

Mazurka for Two Dead Men, the culmination of Camilo José Cela’s literary art, opens in 1936 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War: Lionheart Gamuzo is savagely murdered. In 1939, as the war ends, his brother avenges his death. For both deaths, the blind accordion player Gaudencio plays the same mazurka. Set in backward rural Galicia, Cela’s excellent novel portrays a reign of fools, and works like contrapuntal music, its themes calling and responding, alternately brutal, melancholy, funny, lyrical, and coarse.

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Cela is the Goya of Franco's Spain.–Paul West
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Details

ISBN-10: 0811228258
ISBN-13: 9780811228251
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 02/26/2019
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.10" W, 1.00" H
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