The Family of Pascual Duarte (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Camilo José Cela
- First Published: 1942
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: Early twentieth century
- Setting: Extremadura, Spain
- Genres: Long fiction, Realism, Social realism, Horror literature
- Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, Villages, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Child abuse, Substance abuse, Moral conditions, Spain or Spanish people, Peasantry or peasants
- Locales: Spain
Characters Discussed
Pascual Duarte (pahs-KWAHL DWAR-teh), a peasant of Extremadura, Spain, who has a murderous destiny. He tries to alleviate the tensions and hostility of his life by acts of ferocity. His first acts of violence—the killing of animals, tavern fights, and even the murder of his wife’s lover, El Estirao—seem to occur spontaneously in moments of rage, but the murder of his mother is premeditated. He also shoots his grandmother and may be responsible for the death of the village patriarch, Don Jesús González de la Riva, during an uprising at the start of...
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