Camilo José cela, Gonzalo torrenteballester y a lvar cunquiero ("grandes personajes a fondo" 16) DVD [DVD]

In December 1975, Camilo José Cela was the first guest on the series A FONDO , in a short program, like all those from the first period. He is an absolutely consecrated writer and an author who has known how to cultivate fame outside of strictly literary spheres: "We all carry our legend." Critics have already recognized his risky transgressive will. "I try to open new paths, I don't know with what luck, but what I don't doubt is that with great honesty."
In the program, considered one of the best testimonies of the writer, Cela shows the multifaceted man, the writer, the civil servant, the film actor and the bullfighter. Cela tells of his childhood in Iria Flavia and his adolescence in Madrid: "They asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I started to cry because I didn't want to be anything, not even older."
The one who would be the Nobel Prize winner in 1989 talks, among other books, about the last one he published, Oficio de tinieblas 5 ( 1973), about La Catira, about travel books - with the manuscript of Viaje a la Alcarria in his hands -, about La Pascual Duarte's family . "I think that if the character has strength and is well created, what you have to do is open the doors for him and go after pointing out what he does, and that is a novel."

This A FONDO program is one of the first to be recorded, in 1976, and like all those from the first period, it had a short duration, exceeding half an hour in a few minutes, a time that nevertheless becomes exciting.
Torrente , at sixty-six years old, has just had The saga/fuga of JB . (1972) "a medium success. Great if compared to the absolute ignorance prior to the publication of this novel", although for him "his favorite works Don Juan and Los gozos y lasshadows would deserve to have been taken into account."