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...Catalan, a member of Spain's other belligerent minority, and his death was the first political execution in a decade. It touched off protest marches all round the country. Many Spaniards were appalled by the fact that Puig had been killed by garroting.* In protest, Camilo José Cela, Spain's best-known contemporary novelist (The Family of Pascual Duarte, Pavilion of Repose), refused to take his seat as new president of the Ateneo, the country's most prestigious organization of thinkers and artists...
...handle French imports, from Camembert cheese to cosmetics; they also let 1,000 bags of mail from France pile up in the post offices. Somewhat ghoulishly, the girls at a Melbourne high school sent an invitation in French to President Pompidou to attend their funerals "á une date uncertaine-cela dépend en vous." Yet another protest to Pompidou came from some 100,000 Peruvian women denouncing the eastward drift of radioactive fallout. The mayor of Hiroshima charged France with "blatant disregard for human dignity." Even Prince Philip of Britain joined in the din, saying that he would gladly...
...FAMILY OF PASCUAL DUARTE, by Camilo Jose Cela. Another novel on the Spanish national theme, incest and blood hatred, with the central Spanish symbol, the bullfight. Cela's version excels both in bitterness and narrative control...
...FAMILY OF PASCUAL DUARTE by Camilo Jose Cela, translated and with an introduction by Anthony Kerrigan. 166 pages. Atlantic-Little, Brown...
Camilo Jose Cela, a Spanish novelist, will speak in Spanish at 8 p.m. tonight in Boylston Auditorium. His talk, sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, is one of a series of addresses by foreign authors...