Camilo José Cela writes in the prologue to the first edition of the novel: "La Colmena is nothing more than a pale reflection, a humble shadow of the daily, harsh, endearing and painful reality (...) it does not aspire to be more than a piece of life narrated without reticence, without strange tragedies, without charity, how life flows, exactly how life flows. Whether we want it or not. Life is what lives -in us or outside of us-; we do not We are more than its vehicle, its excipient as the apothecaries say (...) Its action takes place in Madrid - in 1942 - and among a torrent, or a hive, of people who are sometimes happy, and sometimes not."
https://dvdstorespain.es/en/films/10140-la-colmena-dvd--8431588060957.html10140La Colmena [DVD]<div id="productDescription" class="a-section a-spacing-small"><br /><p><span>Camilo José Cela writes in the prologue to the first edition of the novel: "La Colmena is nothing more than a pale reflection, a humble shadow of the daily, harsh, endearing and painful reality (...) it does not aspire to be more than a piece of life narrated without reticence, without strange tragedies, without charity, how life flows, exactly how life flows. Whether we want it or not. Life is what lives -in us or outside of us-; we do not We are more than its vehicle, its excipient as the apothecaries say (...) Its action takes place in Madrid - in 1942 - and among a torrent, or a hive, of people who are sometimes happy, and sometimes not."</span></p></div>https://dvdstorespain.es/242672-home_default/la-colmena-dvd-.jpg4.4628instockEl Pais4.46284.4628002015-04-20T10:19:02+0200/Start/Start/DVD/Start/Films/Start/New/Start/EVENING SP 70Mario Camus
Camilo José Cela writes in the prologue to the first edition of the novel: "La Colmena is nothing more than a pale reflection, a humble shadow of the daily, harsh, endearing and painful reality (...) it does not aspire to be more than a piece of life narrated without reticence, without strange tragedies, without charity, how life flows, exactly how life flows. Whether we want it or not. Life is what lives -in us or outside of us-; we do not We are more than its vehicle, its excipient as the apothecaries say (...) Its action takes place in Madrid - in 1942 - and among a torrent, or a hive, of people who are sometimes happy, and sometimes not."