Volume 39, Number 16 · October 8, 1992
Shock Treatment
By Sarah Kerr
The Family of Pascual Duarte
by Camilo José Cela, translated by Anthony Kerrigan
Little, Brown, 166 pp., $7.95 (paper)
Journey to the Alcarria: Travels Through the Spanish Countryside
by Camilo José Cela, translated by Frances M. López-Morillas
Atlantic Monthly Press, 139 pp., $8.95 (paper)
The Hive
by Camilo José Cela, translated by J.M. Cohen
Noonday Press, 249 pp., $8.95
San Camilo, 1936
by Camilo José Cela, translated by John H.R. Polt
Duke University Press, 302 pp., $14.95
Mrs. Caldwell Speaks to Her Son
by Camilo José Cela, translated by J.S. Bernstein
Cornell University Press, 206 pp., $9.95 (paper)
After the death of General Franco, King Juan Carlos appointed the novelist Camilo José Cela to Spain's Parliament and asked him to help oversee the literary style of the new democratic constitution. Cela remembers a Senate vote in which he managed to avoid taking a position with the same steadfast, principled evasion that has been a theme in his fiction: 'President Fontan said, 'Senator Cela, you vote neither yes nor no, and you don't abstain?' I stood and said respectfully, 'No, Mr. President, I am absent.''[1]
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