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The first-person narrator-protagonist Pascual Duarte, while awaiting execution in the condemned cell, tells the story of his family life and his homicidal past, culminating in matricide. He claims, amongst other things, that Fate is controlling his life and whatever he does nothing will ever change.
- Camilo José Cela
- 1942
Sep 5, 2023 · The Family of Pascual Duarte is a novel about a seemingly ordinary man of rural Spain in the early twentieth century. It purports to be the confessions of Pascual...
Oct 11, 2022 · Pascual Duarte starts his story by describing his village and the customs of ordinary people in a realistic, but not too thorough, manner. It is notable that one of the houses prominent in the narration belongs to the person that will become Pascual’s last victim.
THE LITERARY WORK. A novel set in the impoverished Estrermadura region of west central Spain from the 1880s to 1942; published in Spanish (as La familia de Pascual Duarte) in 1942; in English in 1946. SYNOPSIS.
La familia de Pascual Duarte es una novela de Camilo José Cela, publicada en la lista de las 100 mejores novelas en español del siglo XX del periódico español El Mundo. [1]
The Family of Pascual Duarte. Camilo José Cela, Anthony Kerrigan, Alev Güçlü (Translator) 3.75. 14,620 ratings1,178 reviews. Cela was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in October 1989, and this novel is considered by many to be his masterpiece.
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Pascual killed the Count at the beginning of the Civil War but his defence is not political but, rather, that he was a victim of circumstances. Pascual proceeds to tell his story to Mr. Barrera and it is quite a tale of woe. He was born, he says, at least fifty-five years ago, into poverty, in marked distinction to the wealth of the Count.
