The Family of Pascual Duarte: A Novel"The Family of Pascual Duarte" is the story of Pascual Duarte--a Spanish peasant born into a brutal world of poverty, hatred, and depravity--as told from his prison cell, where he awaits execution for the murders he's committed throughout his lifetime. Despite his savage and cruel impulses, Pascual retains a childlike sense of the world and a groping desire to understand the blows of fate that led him down his bloody path. Originally published in the same year as Camus's "The Stranger"--to which it has been compared--"The Family of Pascual Duarte" is closer in tone to the works of Curzio Malaparte and Louis-Ferdinand C'line. |
Contents
Section 1 | 13 |
Section 2 | 22 |
Section 3 | 29 |
Section 4 | 39 |
Section 5 | 54 |
Section 6 | 58 |
Section 7 | 65 |
Section 8 | 76 |
Section 11 | 94 |
Section 12 | 100 |
Section 13 | 107 |
Section 14 | 117 |
Section 15 | 123 |
Section 16 | 130 |
Section 17 | 143 |
Section 18 | 149 |
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