The Hive (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Camilo José Cela
- First Published: 1951
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: December, 1943
- Setting: Madrid, Spain
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Murder or homicide, 1940’s, Restaurants, bars, taverns, or pubs, Poetry or poets, Singing or singers, Lower classes, Greed, Spain or Spanish people, Gypsies
- Locales: Madrid, Spain
Characters Discussed
Martín Marco (mahr- TEEN), a chronically impoverished leftist intellectual and freelance writer of articles for daily newspapers in Madrid, Spain. Martín is first seen being thrown out of Doña Rosa’s café for his inability to pay his bill. His nighttime walks through post-civil war Madrid serve as the novel’s principal thread, linking the city’s dispersed locales and its plethora of lower-middle-class denizens. Martín’s republican sympathies oppose him to Francisco Franco’s fascist régime, and his obvious disaffection with Spanish life of...
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