Cela, Camilo Jose, translated by Patricia Haugaard, — Mazurka for Two Dead Men.

NY, New Directions, (1983). 4th ptg. VG PB. Definitive novel of how the Spanish Civil War was actually experienced by orginary people. In 1936 when Lionheart Gamuzo. is abducted and killed. In 1939 when the war ends his brother Tanis Gamuzo avenges his death. Cela portrays a reign of fools. Cela was born in Galicia in 1916. His father was Spanish, his mother English. Cela himself studied law, medicine, and philosophy n London and Madrid and in his younger years worked as a journalist and an actor. He has published 50 books and been awarded many literary prizes. Slight edge wear.