Mazurka for two dead men /

Mazurka for two dead men /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Cela, Camilo José, 1916-2002, author.
Uniform title:	Mazurca para dos muertos. English
Imprint:	New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [2019]
Description:	312 pages ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	New Directions Paperbook ; 1431 New Directions paperbook ; 1431.
Subject:	Civil War (Spain : 1936-1939) Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Fiction. Spain. Historical fiction. Fiction. Historical fiction. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11786148

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Other authors / contributors:	Haugaard, Patricia, translator.
ISBN:	9780811228251 0811228258
Notes:	Translation of: Mazurca para dos muertos. Text in English.
Summary:	At the end of the Spanish Civil War, Tanis Gamuzo sets out to avenge the death of his brother, who was abducted and killed during the war, in a work set in a backward rural community. Mazurka for Two Dead Men represents a culmination of the 1989 Nobel Prize winner Camilo Jose Cela's literary art. The novel was originally published in Spain in 1983 and is now presented in a fine translation by Patricia Haugaard. In 1936, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, "Lionheart" Gamuzo is abducted and killed, an event recalled repeatedly by the widowed Adega, one of the several narrative voices. In 1939, when the war ends, Tanis Gamuzo avenges his brother. For both events, and for them only, the blind accordion player Gaudencio plays the same mazurka. Set in a backward rural community in Galicia (the author's home territory), Cela's creation is in many ways like a contrapuntal musical composition built with varying themes and moods. In alternately melancholy, humorous, lyrical, or coarse tones he portrays a reign of fools.

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Summary:	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.
Item Description:	Translation of: Mazurca para dos muertos.
Physical Description:	312 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN:	9780811228251 0811228258