it didn’t happen. After revolutionizing the Spanish literature with “The family of Pascual Duarte” (1942), which he wrote in just 26 years, Cela has filed the first version of “The hive” on January 7, 1946, but it was forbidden. He had to spend half a decade to finally be released, not without problems, by editorial Emecé de Buenos Aires.
Neither in the edition nor in the “canonical” that the Cela decided with the publication of his complete works contains the fragments that now come out for the first time in the light. Why only known to the writer, who died in 2002 and whose birth was fulfilled in may one hundred years. But “out with the purpose that out, there they were,” he defended his son.
Thus, according to the poet and literary critic Jorge Urrutia, this edition has a great value because it speaks of both “the inside story as for the story outside of the novel.” And highlights the paradox of a man who years later would of censor to the franco regime when he himself “suffered the bites of censorship,” said Cela Conde.
The commemorative edition also contains several essays on various aspects of the novel, a bibliography and a census of characters. This is the eighth volume in a collection that started in 2004 with the “don Quixote” and that the Academies of the Spanish Language published in collaboration with Alfaguara, the publisher’s own Cela created in 1964.
that’s why “getting it back is a huge privilege,” said its editorial director, Pilar Reyes. The new volume of “The hive” -which according to experts is one of the three best novels in English in the TWENTIETH century – went on sale on the 22nd of September in Spain and Latin america. In November will also have a presentation during the International Book Fair of Guadalajara.
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