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Mazurka for two dead men
- Title
- Mazurka for two dead men / Camilo José Cela ; translated by Patricia Haugaard.
- Author
- Cela, Camilo José, 1916-2002.
- Publication
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corp., 1992.
- ©1992
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 93-5121 | Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
Not available - Please for assistance. | Text | Restricted use | Berg Coll 22-670 | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
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- Description
- 312 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- At the end of the Spanish Civil War, Tanis Gamuzo sets out to avenge the death of his brother, who was abducted and killed during the war, in a work set in a backward rural community.
- Mazurka for Two Dead Men represents a culmination of the 1989 Nobel Prize winner Camilo Jose Cela's literary art. The novel was originally published in Spain in 1983 and is now presented in a fine translation by Patricia Haugaard. In 1936, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, "Lionheart" Gamuzo is abducted and killed, an event recalled repeatedly by the widowed Adega, one of the several narrative voices. In 1939, when the war ends, Tanis Gamuzo avenges his brother. For both events, and for them only, the blind accordion player Gaudencio plays the same mazurka. Set in a backward rural community in Galicia (the author's home territory), Cela's creation is in many ways like a contrapuntal musical composition built with varying themes and moods. In alternately melancholy, humorous, lyrical, or coarse tones he portrays a reign of fools.
- Uniform Title
- Mazurca para dos muertos. English
- Alternative Title
- Mazurca para dos muertos.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- War fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Dust jackets (Binding) – New York (State) – New York – 1992.
- Note
- "A New Directions book" -- title page.
- "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.
- "This present edition has been translated with the help of the General Administration of Books and Libraries of the Cultural Ministry of Spain" -- title page verso.
- Indexed In (note)
- Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin
- Binding (note)
- bound in publishers' red cloth over boards; with original dust jacket designed by Semadar Megged.
- Call Number
- JFD 93-5121
- ISBN
- 081121222X
- 9780811212229
- 0811212777
- 9780811212779
- LCCN
- 92012618
- OCLC
- 25675472
- Author
- Cela, Camilo José, 1916-2002.
- Title
- Mazurka for two dead men / Camilo José Cela ; translated by Patricia Haugaard.
- Imprint
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corp., 1992.
- Copyright Date
- ©1992
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Indexed In:
- Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 133
- Binding
- Copy in Berg Coll 22-670 bound in publishers' red cloth over boards; with original dust jacket designed by Semadar Megged. NN
- Local Note
- Copy in Berg Coll 22-670 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.
- Chronological Term
- 1936-1939
- Added Author
- Haugaard, Patricia, translator.Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.Megged, Semadar, bookjacket designer.Murray Printing Company, printer.New Directions Publishing, publisher.Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.Javitch, Daniel, donor.Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.
- Research Call Number
- Berg Coll 22-670JFD 93-5121