La Colmena

Resumen del Libro

Set in Madrid in 1942, after the end of the Spanish Civil War, the novel deals with the poverty and general unhappiness found in Spain by examining a multitude of fictional characters in varying levels of detail. The book consists of six chapters and an epilogue. Each chapter contains a number of short passages describing short episodes and focusing on a particular character. In this way a series of insignificant events and characters work together to form an important conclusion, much in the same way that a hive of bees works together to achieve something much more than they could achieve individually.