The son of the Nobel Prize winner defends the “lesser known” work of the author as “having as much value and force” as the rest.

The writer Camilo José Cela Conde, son of the 1989 Nobel Prize winner Camilo José Cela (1916-2002), has asserted this past Monday in Santander, that on the anniversary of the centenary of his father’s birth, works like Apuntes carpetovetónicos (Humorous or Satirical Notes) which are “lesser known, but have as much value and force” as La colmena (The Beehive) or La familia de Pascual Duarte (The Family of Pascual Duarte), will take center stage. He further affirmed that “it is indisputable that Camilo José Cela’s prose is identifiable because of its overpowering personality” and noting the interest generated by this centenary, that in order to remember any writer “what must be made manifest is the legacy left to us by the works, and above all, by the pleasure of reading any work.”

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