The Hive av Camilo Jose Cela, James Womack

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<b>Complete and uncensored in English for the very first time, a fragmented, daringly irreverent depiction of decadence and decay in Franco''s Spain written by the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.</b><br><br>The translator Anthony Kerrigan compared Camilo José Cela, the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, to Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Curzio Malaparte—all “ferocious writers, truculent, badly spoken, even foulmouthed.” However provocative and disturbing, Cela’s novels are also flat-out dazzling, their sentences as rigorous as they are riotous, lodging like knives in the reader’s mind. Cela called himself a proponent of “uglyism,” of “nothingism.” But he has the knack, to quote another critic, Américo Castro, of deploying those “nothings and lacks” to construct beauty.<br><br><i>The Hive</i> is set over the course of a few days in the Madrid of 1943, not long after the end of the