The first Camilo José Cela manuscript, found

First pages of the book. Cultura The manuscript is the collection of poems Pisando la dudosa luz del día , which Camilo José Cela wrote from November 1 to 11, 1936, driven by the death of his girlfriend in tragic circumstances, victim of the bombings of the first major siege of Franco's troops in Madrid, to which he would later enlist. The young poet, influenced by the works of Rafael Alberti, Vicente Aleixandre and, above all, Pablo Neruda, wrote verses since 1934, when he abandoned his medical studies to attend, hidden from his parents, the lessons taught by Pedro Salinas in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. First pages of the book. Cela himself defined this early work as "a book of phenomenal, monstrous verses, the verses that can only be written when one feels Death in his own hands". With a title taken from a verse of the Fable of Polyphemus and Galatea , by Luis de Góngora, Pisando la dudosa luz del día: Poemas de una adolescencia cruel was published in 1945 in Barcelona by the label Ediciones del Zodíaco, owned by Carlos F. Maristany (1913-1985), a publisher of great taste and quality, who would later publish the complete version, without censorship alterations, of La vida de Pascual Duarte . Finally, in 2008 Adolfo Sotelo published, with the collaboration of Marta Cristina Carbonell, professor of Hispanic Literature at the University of Barcelona, a philological edition of the book in Ediciones Línteo.