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Tim Parks: ‘The Hive’, 13 July 2023
The Hive
by Camilo José Cela, translated by James Womack.
NYRB, 262 pp., £15, March,978 1 68137 615 8 Show More
by Camilo José Cela, translated by James Womack.
NYRB, 262 pp., £15, March,
“... money’, selling 700,000 copies ‘at 35 cents a pop’. In any event, we can be grateful that James Womack has produced this excellent new version, the first English translation of the complete uncensored text, even if the idiomatic quality of the original dialogue – for which Cela is celebrated in Spain – has been lost. It was more or less ... ”