The 5 novels to read by Ana María Matute

Ana Maria Matute

Today Ana María Matute has passed away in Barcelona at the age of 88, one of the best writers in Spanish literature and who has left us great novels. It would not hurt to read them all because each one of them would make us enjoy, but from love and memory we have decided to select the 5 novels that in our opinion should be read by this great writer.

Before starting with these 5 novels we want to apologize to you, to Ana María Matute and in general to everyone for only accommodating 5 novels here, as all the ones she has written should be there. Also already We also apologize in advance to all those who may feel offended because there is a novel and another may be missing.

Small theater

Ana Maria Matute

All things must start at the beginning and therefore if we want to immerse ourselves in the literature of Ana María Matute, Maybe we should start reading what is his first novel, entitled "Little Theater" and that he wrote when he was only 17 years old, although it was not published until he was 25 years old.

In this novel he narrates the helplessness, loneliness, hatred, ambition and cruelty of human beings.

Despite being only 17 years old when he wrote this novel it earned him the prestigious Planeta Prize in 1954.

Forgotten King Gudú

Ana Maria Matute

This novel is almost certainly the best known to the general public of all those Ana María Matute wrote, but also the writer always confessed that it was her favorite.

If we had to summarize this novel in a few words, we could say that combines the medieval and the fantastic, with fairies and knightsall mixed together to become a perfect treatise on human emotions.

On this earth / Fireflies

Ana Maria Matute

This is definitely another of the best known novels by Ana María Matute and in which it narrates the stories of children who have been robbed of almost everything by the Civil War and of course deprived of his childhood.

In 1949 it was banned by the censorship and shortly afterwards it arrived in the bookstores reviewed and under the title of "In this land". In 1993 he recovered the original version and published it with its original title, which was "Fireflies"

First memory

Ana Maria Matute

"First memory" was written and published immediately after "The dead children" and with the theme of the Civil War once again as a backdrop and with two children, Matia and her cousin Borja as protagonists. It is the first novel of the trilogy "The merchants", continued with "Soldiers cry at night" y "The trap".

This novel earned him the Nadal Prize in 1959 and good reviews from almost everyone.

The door of the moon

Ana Maria Matute

The last of the books that we propose by Ana María Matute is not a novel but a compilation of all his stories, accompanied in addition to short writings and newspaper articles that has to do something with the little ones, which was published in 2010.

Without a doubt it is a compilation that we should all have, read and enjoy until the last page of it.

What is your favorite book or the one that you would recommend to any friend of Ana María Matute?.


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  1.   Mabel said

    Since I read his story Happiness I reread it every time I can and I work with my students because I want them to know it