The Foolish Children by Matute, Ana Maria

The Foolish Children

Fools for Christ are men and women who live outside the social norms, whose behavior is considered...
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Author: Ana Maria Matute
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The Foolish Children by Matute, Ana Maria

The Foolish Children

$12.99

The Foolish Children

$12.99
Author: Ana Maria Matute
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Fools for Christ are men and women who live outside the social norms, whose behavior is considered shocking or unusual. But in a time of dictatorship, when these stories were first published, "foolish" behavior can be a form of protest. So, a child who is unable to access the forbidden fruits of a pastry shop, out of protest, refuses to eat the chickpeas that are offered to him; another child, who cannot pay for a ride on the merry-go-round, slips under the tarpaulin when the ride is not working and creates his own ride out of his own fantasy. A fat child, who is bullied and made fun of by the town's more respectable children, makes friends with a paschal lamb, which then, to his shock and horror, is served up for dinner. Another boy takes to setting the corner of a whitewashed house on fire with his coloring pencils. It is the children who throw away their toys or who torture animals that are somehow considered normal. The Foolish Children contains twenty-one micro-fiction stories by Ana Mar a Matute in Spanish and in English translation. The original was first published in Spain during Franco's dictatorship. It was rated by the Nobel laureate Camilo Jos Cela as "the most important work written in Spanish by a woman since the Countess Emilia Pardo Baz n." Ana Mar a Matute, along with Camilo Jos Cela and Miguel Delibes, is widely considered one of Spain's most distinguished writers of fiction in the twentieth century. She was awarded the National Prize for Literature twice and, in 2010, received the Spanish-speaking world's most prestigious literary award, the Cervantes.



Author: Ana Maria Matute
Publisher: Small Stations Press
Published: 12/06/2016
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.27d
ISBN: 9789543840601

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