Mazurka for Two Dead Men - Softcover

Cela, Camilo Jose

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811212777 ISBN 13: 9780811212779

Publisher: New Directions Publishing, 1994

Synopsis

Book by Cela, Camilo Jose

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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.

About the Author:

Cela won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1989.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions Publishing
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0811212777
• ISBN 13: 9780811212779
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 324