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Gonzalo Torrente Ballester

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born

June 13, 1910 in Ferrol (Galicia), Spain

died

January 27, 1999

gender

male

website

http://www.gonzalotorrenteballester.es/

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Although primarily a novelist, he also published journalism, essays, and plays. His career as a writer began in Oviedo, but developed largely in Madrid.

After moving around frequently in the later 1920s and early 1930s, including a period in Paris, he returned to Spain and linked himself to Franco's Falange party in order to save his own life and that of his family. His first novel, Javier Mariño, appeared in 1943, and he continued to publish novels almost until his death, receiving major prizes for some of them.

Despite his affiliation to the Falangists, Torrente Ballester always promoted relatively leftist ideas, and from 1939, when he returned to Santiago to take up a university post, he increasingly distanced himself from the party. He jo...more

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Books by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester

Average rating: 3.97 · 443 ratings · 22 reviews · 46 distinct works

	Donde da la vuelta el aire (Los gozos y las sombras, #2) 4.42 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1972 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Crónica del rey pasmado 3.74 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1989 — 9 editions	My rating:
	La pascua triste (Los gozos y las sombras, #3) 4.43 avg rating — 42 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	El Señor Llega 4.35 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1957 — 5 editions	My rating:
	La Saga/Fuga De J. B 4.13 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1972 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Don Juan 3.94 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1963 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Filomeno, a mi pesar: Memorias de un Señorito Descolocado 4.20 avg rating — 35 ratings — 8 editions	My rating:
	La Muerte del Decano 3.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	My rating:
	A Bela Adormecida Vai à Escola 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1983 — 4 editions	My rating:
	As Ilhas Extraordinárias 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating: