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Spain's Spinner of Tales: A Profile of Camilo Jose Cela |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / WRITERS AND WRITING |
| Author: Thilo Ullmann |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2002 |
| Size: 2,861 Words, 17,405 Characters |
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Galicia, the northwestern corner of the Iberian Peninsula--green, lush, and misty--has mothered many tales, myths, and storytellers. The coast is rough, and its villages hide from the Atlantic at the end of deep and narrow bays. On the coastal cliffs, widows watch for the shipwrecked. The interior is mountainous and wooded, inhabited by men, monks, cattle, and witches. I do not believe in the witches, but I know where they are.
Galicia is Celtic, and the barbaric Vandals came and left. Galicia became barely Roman, but prefects and centurions reveled in the riches, even gold, that the genies of the underground, when suitably cajoled, led them to discover.
Inhabited by ghosts, goblins, and pale creatures of the night, Galicia is also hospitable to seafarers, pirates, mariners, and ...
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...he redefinition of national identities bereft of the spiritual and intellectual certainties of historical myths. The demands of a pluralistic universe on the fabric of societies and individualities constructed around a fixed set of premises are disorienting and tragic. Cela tells us that in all our pettiness and mediocrity, even in the monstrosity of some human deeds, we are not bad people.
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