El asesinato del perdedor

by Camilo José Cela

Historia de un joven que se ahorco desesperado ante el acoso de una sociedad represiva y hostil, El asesinato del perdedor ?primera de las novelas escritas por Cela después de obtener el Premio Nobel de Literatura? constituye el nuevo e insuperable retrato de una España negra que todavía pervive.

Genres: Spain

238 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Camilo José Cela Trulock was a Spaniard writer from Galicia. Prolific author (as a novelist, journalist, essayist, literary magazine editor, lecturer ...), he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy for 45 years and won, among others, the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 1987, 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.") and the Cervantes Prize in 1995.

In 1996 King Juan Carlos I granted him, for his literary merits, the title Marquis of Iria Flavia.

His son, Camilo José Cela Conde is also a writer.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilo_J...