Cela PASCUAL DUARTE'S FAMILY 1946 First edition

Title: Pascual Duarte's Family
Author: Camilo J. Cela
Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode (London)
Printing Year: 1946

Condition/Details: Bound in maroon cloth with gilt embossing, this volume is a scarce first English-language edition of this influential Spanish writer's first novel (originally published in 1942, when the author was 26). It tells the story of Pascual Duarte, who is about to be executed for murder. Pascual shares his story about his family life and his homicidal past before he got into jail. He says the Fate is controlling his life and that whatever he does it won't change. Cela would eventually receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989 "for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability." The volume is solidly bound with clean pages and appears in a glassine-covered dustjacket. The book measures approximately 5" x 7.5" and contains 128 pages. Shipping cost (within the U.S.) for this lot will be: $4.50