Research Paper on:
Tiempo de Silencio by Luis Martin Santos and La Colmena by Camilo J. Cela

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works are considered poetic and symbolic, presenting the reader with deeply meaningful insights into a people, a culture, and time periods. In Martin-Santos "Tiempo De Silencio" and Celas "La Colmena"  we see perspectives on Spanish society during the postwar period. The following paper first examines the Spanish society portrayed in "La Colmena" and then discusses the same concerning "Tiempo De  Silencio." The paper finishes with a comparison and discussion of the two. La Colmena "Celas novel depicts the hardship borne by the lower-middle class following the Spanish Civil  War. Told through a series of interlinked vignettes, the story involves nearly 100 characters" (Rogers, 2001; p. 118). It portrays, very bluntly, "life under a dictatorship" and as such was  "banned during the Franco regime" (Rogers, 2001; p. 118). According to one author, Celas "works are marked by overtones of existentialism, brutal realism and humor, and experiments with narrative  time. In the authors pessimistic world the lives and violent emotions of several hundred personages are mixed together" (Books and Writers, 2002). In better understanding Celas perspectives, a knowledge that  can help us assess the work under examination, we provide the following words of Cela taken from a Nobel Lecture in 1989: "Through the process of thought man begins to  discover hidden truth in the world, he can aim to create his own different world in whatever terms he wishes through the medium of the fable. Thus truth, thought, freedom  and fable are interlinked in a complicated and on occasion suspect relationship. It is like a dark passageway with several side-turnings going off in the wrong direction; a labyrinth with  no way out. But the element of risk has always been the best justification for embarking on an adventure" (Books and Writers, 2002). These statements relate to the