A Light Comedy, Eduardo Mendoza (anotated ed.)

The edition that contextualizes and enriches the inescapable work of Eduardo Mendoza.
 
"Una comedia ligera" is performed during the tough first postwar period, syrupy by a bourgeoisie that disregards the misery that the civil strife has generated.

Of a stylistic virtuosity as playful as uncommon, this prodigious novel constitutes the catalog of voices of an infamous time and an inventory of the forms that morality acquires when the need squeezes into an inefficient old country. The bourgeois glare is opposed to the darkness of the underworld, the imaginary of women illuminates an atavistic machismo, the mischievous literary genres dispute the prominence throughout a warm Summer, and a criminal intrigue peeks into a tangle comedy.

The reader will also enjoy of the complaint of the theater and the cinema when the comedy is darkened and Hollywood bursts and dazzles, and the symphony of types, rhythms and contrasts that the novel composes.

This edicion includes some pages of the notebooks that contributed to the writing process and an Epilogue by Eduardo Mendoza.