Background
Matute was born on 26 July 1925.
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tapa cartone, buen estado general, cubierta algo sucia por el uso, edicion 1970, 180 paginas,Prologo de Luis romeo
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(Esta ambiciosa obra representa la culminaciÁn de la trilo...)
Esta ambiciosa obra representa la culminaciÁn de la trilogÁa Los mercaderes, iniciada con Primera memoria –Premio Nadal 1960– a la que siguiÁ Los soldados lloran de noche (ambas publicadas en Austral). Aunque comparte algunos personajes, se trata de una novela autÁnoma que nos descubre, de nuevo, el singular uni
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(Los soldados lloran de noche, escrita en 1963 y ganadora ...)
Los soldados lloran de noche, escrita en 1963 y ganadora del Premio Fastenrath de la Real Academia Española, es la segunda novela de la trilogía Los mercaderes, iniciada con Primera memoria.
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(Con la guerra civil, lejana y proxima a un tiempo, quizas...)
Con la guerra civil, lejana y proxima a un tiempo, quizas mas temida por invisible, como telon de fondo, Primera memoria narra el paso de la ninez a la adolescencia de Maria y de su primo Borja.
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segunda edicion febrero 1959, tapa blanda, dedicatoria personaliza de Ana Maria Matute a su colega artista Aurora Grau fechada en 23.abril.1959, algo desencolado de interior, en general muy buen estado, 123 paginas
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(Uniquely precocious within the Hispanic fiction -publishe...)
Uniquely precocious within the Hispanic fiction -published when author Ana Maria Matute was 22 years old- «Los Abel» reached the finals of the 1947 Nadal prize. It was positively received, due both to the prestige of the prize and the surprise created by the rising of this feminine youthful voice that continued the disruption created by Carmen Laforet's «Nada». However the canonical critique proved unable to fully appreciate the originality of this novel that, baffling censors, trespassed the Spanish dictatorship moral order for women and set the Spanish novel within the trend of universal fiction. The struggle between good and evil, so vivid during and after the Spanish civil war, constitutes a recurring subject in Matute's novels. Child of the triumphant side, Matute never celebrated victory. Far from that, her civil war literature deals mainly with the pain of brotherly fight: a central issue in «Los Abel». This issue is intertwined with Valba's -the main caracter- development, transforming the novel into a feminine «bildungsroman» of the forties, similar the the celebrated «Nada», both maintaining intertextualites with gothic novels of famous women British writers of the XXth Century. But «Los Abel» includes a surprise amidst the repressive 1948 Spain, and it is that Valba, facing the bourgeois «sensibility» explicitly opposes her desires. Her unconscious as a «desiring machine» stands up, a factor that has baffled a vast number of well established critics. In this edition, prepared by prof. Víctor Fuentes, both the introductory essay and the footnotes highlight these unusual characteristics, thus rescuing this work for the general public and, very specially, for courses both at under and graduate levels.
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Con la guerra civil, «lejana y próxima a un tiempo, quizás más temida por invisible», como telón de fondo, Primera memoria, Premio Nadal 1959, narra el paso de la niñez a la adolescencia de Matia la protagonista y de su primo Borja. Los dos viven en casa de su abuela en un mundo insular ingenuo y misterioso a la vez. A través de la visión particularísima de la muchacha sin madre y con padre desaparecido asistimos a su despertar a la adolescencia, cuando, roto el caparazón de la niñez, ciega y asombra y hasta a veces duele el fuerte resplandor de la realidad. Una intensa galería de personajes constituye el contrapunto de su vertiginosa sucesión de sensaciones. Y es que en unos meses, Matia descubrirá muchas cosas sobre «la oscura vida de las personas mayores». Melancólica elegía de la perversión de la inocencia, Primera memoria es, sin lugar a dudas, una de las mejores novelas de Ana María Matute.
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Matute was born on 26 July 1925.
She studied at the international school of Hilversum in the Netherlands.
She is considered to be one of the foremost novelists of the posguerra, the period immediately following the Spanish Civil War. She has been a guest lecturer to the universities of Oklahoma, Indiana and Virginia. Matute says that she was profoundly influenced by the villagers whom she met during her time there.
Settings reminiscent of that town are also often used as settings for her other work.
Matute was ten years old when the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, and this conflict is said to have had the greatest impact on Matute"s writing. She considered not only "the battles between the two factions, but also the internal aggression within each one".
The war resulted in Francisco Franco"s rise to power, starting in 1936 and escalating until 1939, when he took control of the entire country. Franco established a dictatorship which lasted thirty-six years, until his death in 1975.
The violence brought on by the war continued through much of his reign.
Her work was sometimes censored by the Franco regime, and at least once she was fined because of her writings. She published her first story, "The Boy Next Door," when she was only 17 years old. Matute was known for her sympathetic treatment of the lives of children and adolescents, their feelings of betrayal and isolation, and their rites of passage.
Matute was a university professor
She traveled to various countries, especially the United States, as a lecturer. She was outspoken about subjects such as the benefits of emotional suffering, the constant changing of a human being, and how innocence is never completely lost.
On 25 June 2014, Matute died of a heart attack at the age of 88. Luciérnagas (Translated as Fireflies)
Olvidado rey Gudú
Aranmanoth (novel, 2000)
El árbol de oro
Los Chicos
Rafael
El ausente
Bernardino
Louisiana Conciencia
El Salvamento
Navidad para Carnavalito
Louisiana Rama Seca
Paraíso habitado
El Polizón Delegate Ulises (novel,1965) (Premio Lazarillo)
Demonios familiares
The Heliotrope Wall and Other Stories.
(Con la guerra civil, «lejana y próxima a un tiempo, quiz...)
(Esta ambiciosa obra representa la culminaciÁn de la trilo...)
(Con la guerra civil, lejana y proxima a un tiempo, quizas...)
(Los soldados lloran de noche, escrita en 1963 y ganadora ...)
(Uniquely precocious within the Hispanic fiction -publishe...)
(segunda edicion febrero 1959, tapa blanda, dedicatoria pe...)
(tapa cartone, buen estado general, cubierta algo sucia po...)
(volumen 106, Premio Cafe Gijon 1952, 1º edicion, agosto 1...)
(nº 07, premio Nadal 1959, 9ª edicion febrero 1991,245 pag...)
(Book by Matute, Ana Maria, Matute, Ana María)
(Spanish language literature.)
(Book by Matute, Ana Maria)
(Barcelona. 1966. Planeta. 21x15. 556p.)
(12mo. 165pp. Hardback with DJ. Ancora y Delfin 306.)
Real Academia Española]
She was an honorary member of the Hispanic Society of America and a member of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.