Camilo José Cela Trulock (1916–2002) was a Spanish novelist, essayist, and poet known for exploring violence, existential struggle, and social realism. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1989,) he was recognized for his intense prose and deep cultural insight. His works—spanning novels, short narratives, and travel diaries—were marked by bold experimentation and a commitment to artistic boundaries.
Born in Iria Flavia, Spain, Cela studied at the University of Madrid before and after the Spanish Civil War. His literary career began with The Family of Pascual Duarte (1942,) introducing tremendismo, a style characterized by stark depictions of violence and suffering. His second major work, The Hive (1951,) innovatively portrayed postwar Madrid with a fragmented structure and a large cast of characters.
Other notable novels include San Camilo, 1936 (1969,) Mazurka for Two Dead Men (1983,) and Boxwood (1999.) Cela also wrote extensively on travel, with works such as Journey to the Alcarria (1948) and Jews, Moors, and Christians (1956,) offering vivid descriptions of Spanish landscapes and cultures.
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Things are always best seen when they are a trifle mixed-up, a trifle disordered; the chilly administrative neatness of museums and filing cases, of statistics and cemeteries, is an inhuman and antinatural kind of order; it is, in a word, disorder.
—Camilo Jose Cela
Topics: Disorder
Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
—Camilo Jose Cela
Topics: Literature
There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
—Camilo Jose Cela
Topics: History
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