Madrid . On September 8, 1916 was born in Padron, a small Galician town of the province of La Coruna, writer Camilo Jose Cela, Nobel Prize for Literature 1989 and one of the most influential literary voices of the second half of the twentieth century in points Spanish.
to commemorate its centennial, the Cervantes Institute presented an exhibition of intimate objects that show the peculiarities of a character in many shades, with a pen and paper was able to reflect as few daily hardships of the postwar era or the dream fables of their natural Galicia.
the objects displayed by Camilo Jose Cela’s brought his only son, Camilo Jose Cela Conde and his first wife, Rosario Conde Picavea, so it is belongings of the writer during the period of time that shared his life, between 1941 and 1964.
that was the most prolific and most literary quality of the author’s age when he wrote in his own handwriting which are considered the two great literary works that are already part of the annals of Spanish literature: family of Pascual Duarte , his first novel and he wrote in 1942, in what I represented a clear break with the formalist criteria and propagandists of intellectuals and writers Falange Spanish, that during the long fascist dictatorship Francisco Franco (1939-1976) were very influential. Also during this period, he wrote The hive in 1951, and which definitely Cela became one of the great storytellers of the time.
exposure Camilo Jose Cela: and l remember closest displays objects than ever before had it been released, including some unpublished letters, manuscripts, books, photographs, drawings, poems and even two pens with which he wrote his two masterpieces: a mottled feather in green and with deformed belly with who wrote the family of Pascual Duarte and Mont Blanc with which wrote the hive .
His widow recalled that Cela always wrote hand and she, like her partner, was responsible for keeping always full inkwells and, once written text, she transcribed the machine- and without corrections or the erasures that the writer made them in his repeated readings.
Among the fondest objects displayed exemplary delicacy of is the family of Pascual Duarte that had Cela in his hands and he dedicated his then-wife and a facsimile of the manuscript. The exhibition is also the book by Joan Miró Drawings and lithographs (1959), which contains three linked lithographs, signed by Miró in the last, and two color tests.
the exhibition was inaugurated by the Kings of Spain, Felipe and Letizia, with the presence of his son, Cela Conde, who announced that “we are very happy. It has done a lot but it is too much. In fact, the events will continue until 2018 because there are so many that 2017 falls short. The bottom line is that it could end the creation of a Cela Museum in Mallorca and Studies Center in Madrid “, this is the goal, says the also writer.
also announced that this month will present a new edition of the hive “absolutely new and different” will incorporate fragments that did not appear in the first edition (Buenos Aires, 1951), either because the cut censorship that then prevailed in Spain, either because the Cela himself autocensuró. This new material will appear as “an appendage of great interest” even “give a new alternative to final body of the book.” he also revealed that there will be soon a joint redición of two of his books travel, Madrid (1966) and Barcelona (1970), to be published in a single bilingual volume in Castilian and Catalan.
the commemoration of the Spanish Nobel will continue until June 2017 with a total of 22 activities that will present the many facets of the creation and controversial personality.
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