Readers new to Cela will find in this novel ample reason for the author's growing reputation among audiences worldwide. "Cela continues to anticipate and outlast his peers.
The book includes more than three hundred characters whose comings and goings it tracks to hypnotic effect. Scabrous, scandalous, and profane, The Hive is a virtuosic group portrait of a wounded and sick society.
A New York Times Best Book of the Year Nobel Prize Laureate 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.
Published in 1963, this book gave historical context to the works of Camilo Jose Cela (1916-2002) who would go on to be awarded the Nobel prize in Literature in 1989.
... Cela nie jest w stanie napisać banalnego zdania czy bezbarwnego opisu. Ja jej często sugeruję banał, mówiąc: „Podziękuj za miły list”. A tu widzę, że Cela tak pisze: Twój list jest mądry i szlachetny... Jej naturalnym stanem ducha jest ...