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A New York Times Best Book of the Year

Nobel Prize Laureate



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"Cela never forgets that the mazurka is a dance. He writes with gusto about that fundamental two-step of human existence: sex and death." -- Los Angeles Times
"The definitive novel of how the Spanish Civil War was actually experienced by ordinary people." -- Newsday
"If there is any Spanish novelist who deserves the Nobel Prize on the merit of narrative experimentation alone, it is without a doubt Camilo José Cela." -- Miguel Ugarte - The Nation
"His most mesmerizing fiction, about life during the first four decades of the twentieth century, a life so brutal that the Spanish Civil War, when it occurs, seems a mere continuation of the ordinary. A fiendishly haunting story." -- The New York Times
"Cela is the Goya of Franco’s Spain." -- Paul West
"There is a secret slot for Cela at his best, as one of the great prose stylists, plural, of Spain—a man dangerously like us." -- Roberto Bolaño

Mazurka for Two Dead Men

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    A Paperback / softback by Camilo José Cela, Patricia Haugaard

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      Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 18/12/2018
      ISBN13: 9780811228251, 978-0811228251
      ISBN10: 0811228258
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A New York Times Best Book of the Year

      Nobel Prize Laureate



      Trade Review
      "Cela never forgets that the mazurka is a dance. He writes with gusto about that fundamental two-step of human existence: sex and death." -- Los Angeles Times
      "The definitive novel of how the Spanish Civil War was actually experienced by ordinary people." -- Newsday
      "If there is any Spanish novelist who deserves the Nobel Prize on the merit of narrative experimentation alone, it is without a doubt Camilo José Cela." -- Miguel Ugarte - The Nation
      "His most mesmerizing fiction, about life during the first four decades of the twentieth century, a life so brutal that the Spanish Civil War, when it occurs, seems a mere continuation of the ordinary. A fiendishly haunting story." -- The New York Times
      "Cela is the Goya of Franco’s Spain." -- Paul West
      "There is a secret slot for Cela at his best, as one of the great prose stylists, plural, of Spain—a man dangerously like us." -- Roberto Bolaño

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