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New York. 1983. Columbia University Press. 1st American Edition. Date Stamped in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0231054602. Translated from the Spanish by Frances M. Lopez-Morillas. Twentieth-Century Continental Fiction series-The Hedge is the first work to appear in a new series of translations designed to make available to English-speaking readers the fiction of outstanding European writers. The first works to be presented in the series are Spanish, and include novels by Carmen Martin Gaite, Jesus Fernandez Santos, and Juan Benet. 206 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Laiying Chong. keywords: Literature Translated Spain. FROM THE PUBLISHER-In the world of Spanish novelist Miguel Delibes the nightmares of Kafka and Orwell are never very far away. The Hedge is Delibes' ferocious satire on life in a totalitarian state, a semi-fictional landscape where both the natural and unnatural worlds conspire against human freedom. The hero of The Hedge is Jacinto, an undistinguished office clerk. His job is to copy out endless rows of zeroes. When Jacinto collapses from exhaustion, the all-powerful director, Don Abd6n, recommends a rest cure at the Company retreat. There Jacinto, following orders, sows some special seeds. A hedge rapidly grows, cutting him off from the world. And so Jacinto abandons city life for a bizarre encounter with nature. First published in 1969 The Hedge is a dense and powerful novel about individuality and its annihilation. Using a handful of sparely drawn characters and a narrative technique that is often dreamlike, Delibes explores the limits of reason in a universe where human dignity must take on many guises. Delibes' comic and horrifying vision has earned him back flap) (Continued from front flap) a place as one of contemporary Spain's leading writers. A journalist as well as a writer of fiction and short stories, Miguel Delibes first earned recognition in 1948 for La sombra del cipres es alargada, which won the Nadal Prize. The Hedge is Delibes' most sophisticated and ambitious work to date, a novel placing the author firmly in the European tradition. Delibes was made a member of the 'Royal Spanish Academy of the Language in 1975, inventory #34277.