Cela won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1989. Martin Sokolinsky is a retired professor of English, and a translator from French, German, and Spanish. His other translations include A Bag of Marbles by Joseph Joffo, The Teeth of the Wolf by Alain Paris, and Chopin by Bernard Gavoty. Lucile C. Charlebois is an associate professor of Spanish literature at the University of South Carolina, where she is also graduate director in Spanish. She has published widely on the theater of theSpanish Generation of 1898.

"Cela is a restless spirit. In him is united a marked fondness for experiment with a provocative attitude. At the same time he can be included in an old Spanish tradition of hilarious grotesqueness--which is often the other side of despair. Compassion for man's hopeless suffering is there, but tightly controlled."--1989 Nobel Prize for Literature Press Release

Cela won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1989. Martin Sokolinsky is a retired professor of English, and a translator from French, German, and Spanish. His other translations include A Bag of Marbles by Joseph Joffo, The Teeth of the Wolf by Alain Paris, and Chopin by Bernard Gavoty. Lucile C. Charlebois is an associate professor of Spanish literature at the University of South Carolina, where she is also graduate director in Spanish. She has published widely on the theater of theSpanish Generation of 1898.

"Cela is a restless spirit. In him is united a marked fondness for experiment with a provocative attitude. At the same time he can be included in an old Spanish tradition of hilarious grotesqueness--which is often the other side of despair. Compassion for man's hopeless suffering is there, but tightly controlled."--1989 Nobel Prize for Literature Press Release

Cela won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1989. Martin Sokolinsky is a retired professor of English, and a translator from French, German, and Spanish. His other translations include A Bag of Marbles by Joseph Joffo, The Teeth of the Wolf by Alain Paris, and Chopin by Bernard Gavoty. Lucile C. Charlebois is an associate professor of Spanish literature at the University of South Carolina, where she is also graduate director in Spanish. She has published widely on the theater of theSpanish Generation of 1898.

"Cela is a restless spirit. In him is united a marked fondness for experiment with a provocative attitude. At the same time he can be included in an old Spanish tradition of hilarious grotesqueness--which is often the other side of despair. Compassion for man's hopeless suffering is there, but tightly controlled."--1989 Nobel Prize for Literature Press Release