Mazurca Para Dos Muertos/ Mazurca For Two Dead Men

Resumen del Libro

Mazurca para dos muertos represents a culmination of the 1989 Nobel Prize winner Camilo Jose Celas literary art. The novel was originally published in Spain in 1983. 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 authors home territory), Celas 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.