La familia de Pascual Duarte / Camilo José Cela ; edited by Harold L. Boudreau and John W. Kronik.
[This] is the story of Pascual Duarte - a Spanish peasant born into a brutal world of poverty, hatred, and depravity - as told from his prison cell, where he awaits his execution for the murders he's committed throughout his lifetime. Despite his savage and cruel impulses, Pascual retains a chi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Spanish English |
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Englewood Cliffs, N.J. :
Prentice-Hall,
©1961.
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| Summary: | [This] is the story of Pascual Duarte - a Spanish peasant born into a brutal world of poverty, hatred, and depravity - as told from his prison cell, where he awaits his execution for the murders he's committed throughout his lifetime. Despite his savage and cruel impulses, Pascual retains a childlike sense of the world and a groping desire to understand the blows of fate that led him down his bloody path. |
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| Item Description: | Text edited by Boudreau and Kronik originally published: New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1961. |
| Physical Description: | xxix, 175 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvii-xxix). |
| ISBN: | 0135283078 9780135283073 |
| Language: | Text in Spanish; preface in English. "Vocabulario": pages 145-175, Spanish-English. |