Mark wrote:
<I saw this Associated Press obit of Camilo Jose Cela
today. I'd never heard of him, but he sounds interesting. Has
he been translated into English?
The description of his big book sounds like it could be
related to hardboiled. It also brings to my mind comparisons
with Isaac Babel. Is either of these assumptions even
close?>
At least four of Cela's novels have been translated into
English - The Family of Pascual Duarte; The Hive; Mrs.
Caldwell Speaks to Her Son; Mazurka for Two Dead Men - as
well as several other books. Here is a good Internet
reference entry on him:
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/cela.htm
I haven't read his books, alas, so can't comment on his
hard-boiledness or relation to the great Isaac Babel. I agree
that he sounds quite interesting - one of dozens, even
hundreds, of 20c European novelists I would like to "get
to".
Mark Harris
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