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TwoDead Men is the culmination of Camilo Jose Cela's literary art.At thebeginning of the war in 1936,Lionheart Gamuzo is savagely murdered.In1939,as the war ends,his brother avenges his death.For both deaths,theblind accordion player plays the same mazurka.Set in backward rural Gali-cia,Celas novel portrays a reign of fools and works like contrapuntal music,its themes calling and responding.alternately visceral,melancholy.funny.lyrical,and coarse.  \n\"The definitive novel of how the Spanish Civil War was actuallyexperienced by ordinary people.\"-Newsday  \n\"There is a secret slot for Cela at his best,as one of thegreat prose stylists,plural,of Spain-a man dangerouslylike us.\"-Roberto Bolano  \n“Cela never forgets that the mazurka is a dance.He writes withgusto about that fundamental two-step of human existence:sex and death.”—Los Angeles Times  \n\"Cela is the Goya of Franco's Spain.\"-Paul West  \nCAMILO JoSE CELA(1916-2002).winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize,pub-lished more than fifty books,nineteen of them novels.The Family ofPascual Duarte(1942).Mazurka for Tuo Dead Men (1983),and the exper-imental final novel Boxwood (1989)are his three most widely acclaimedworks.  \n$18.95USA  \nA New Directions Paperbookindependent publisher since 1936ndbooks.com  \n# Mazurka for Two Dead Men\n\nPurchased from  \nMultnomah County LibraryTitle Wave Used Bockstore216 NE Knott St Portland,OR503-988-5021  \nCamilo José Cela  \n# MAZURKA FORTWO DEAD MEN\n\ntranslated by Patricia Haugaard  \nCopyright C Camilo Jose Cela,1983  \nCopyright◎ Editorial Seix Barral,S.A.,1984Copyright CPatricia Haugaard for the translation,1992  \nAll rights reserved.Except for brief passages quoted in a newspaper,magazine,radio,television,or website review,no part of this book may be reproduced in anyform or by any means,electronic or mechanical,including photocopying andrecording,or by any information storage or retrieval system,without permissionin writing from the Publisher  \nThis present edition has been translated with the help ofthe General Administra-tion of Books and Libraries of the Cultural Ministry of Spain.  \nManufactured in the United States of America.  \nNew Directions Books are printed on acid-free paper  \nFirst published clothbound by New Directions in 1992 and in paper in 1994.Reissued as New Directions Paperbook 1431in 2019(ISBN 978--8112-2825-1).  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nCela,Camilo Jose,1916-  \n[Mazurca para dos muertos.English]  \nMazurka for two dead men/Camilo Jose Cela;translated by Patricia Haugaard.p.cm.  \nTranslation of:Mazurca para dos muertos.  \nISBN o-8112-1222-x(acid-free paper  \nI.Title.  \nPQ6605.E44M33131992  \n863.64-dczo  \n10987654321  \nNew Directions Books are published for James Laughlinby New Directions Publishing Corporation8o Eighth Avenue,New York 10011  \n...our thoughts they were palsied and sere,Our memories were treacherous and sere.  \n—Edgar Allan 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