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LA Colmena
by Camilo Jose Cela Conde
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Aims Intl Books Corp (1996-01)
ISBN: 8401381444
EAN: 9788401381447
Dewy Decimal #: 468
Paperback
SKU: 07100276
Condition: Very Good As issued
Comments: Trade Paperback. Very Good condition with no markings. No highlights, underlines or notes in text. No creases to spine or cover. Minor wear to cover.Specking on top edge. Tight binding and clean crisp text. Very Nice copy.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
The critically acclaimed novel by the Spanish Nobel laureate offers a portrait of Madrid and its colorful inhabitants as they struggle to survive in the era between the two World Wars. Reprint.
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Customer Reviews
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La Biblia de la posguerra
Rating  (5)
Date: 2001-01-24
6 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
With his characteristic ironic humor Mr. Cela centers "La Colmena" in the most dramatic period of Spain's 20th century history: the postwar. The characters are exquisitely molded into poor wretches, intransigent manipulators, neurotic business owners, garrulous salesmen, diffident bourgeois and aloof poets. The synergy is powerful because of its contrasts: each a survivor of the war and condemned to lead an egregious life. However, Cela's main theme is not just survival or improvisation, but imagination. The cafe dwellers are mostly penniless intellectuals hoping to trade a labored sonnet for a cup of coffee; or forlorn creatures longing for lost (and never-known) ones. An admiral of modern Spanish literature, Cela is a nobel prize laureate.
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Great book!
Rating (5)
Date: 2000-03-30
8 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
Those who try to write the names of the characters down or even try to center the novel in any particular place completely miss the point of this novel. This is a novel about a community, a wolrd, where names and places are irrelevant. The only relevant thing is the city, Madrid, and the struggle of the people we read about in this novel. A wonderful masterpiece, a fast-paced cinema-like novel that beautifully portrays the suffering during the years of Franco's regime
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A book full of destinies
Rating  (3)
Date: 1998-09-16
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
an interesting book about people and their efforts to survive in Madrid during the second world war. The heart of the story is Dona Rosa's cafe, where all different kinds of people meet, laugh, argue, cry and generally having a hard time. It is interesting to read about all the different destinies in this difficult world, but the problem was that there were too many people, I lost track after a while. An advice to other readers is to write down the names of all characters and a short personal description. After a while, you will realize that they all are connected in one way or another.
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