Camilo José Cela, the delicacy of the Nobel Prize who used farts and belches to scandalize

• Interview Marina Castaño: 'By dint of dog face, I have made myself respected'

• Quarrels The tense meeting between Marina Castaño and Camilo José Cela Conde

• Courts Marina Castaño and Cela Conde, a millionaire sentence without possible peace

• Families The 'posthumous forgiveness' of Cela Conde to his father with a great tribute

"Long live Iria Flavia!" They were the last words he spoke in memory of the town of A Coruña where he was born, which also gives its name to the

. He died at the age of 85 on January 17, 2002, now 20 years ago, but hours before he died he insisted on

and having lentils for lunch. And it is that, apart from his great talent as a writer, with universal works such as

,

and many others, and apart from that overwhelming triplet that means winning the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters, the Cervantes Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature, Camilo José Cela was a

Multifaceted, since he was also an actor, editor, painter (he even exhibited in La Coruña) and occasional homeless man, he was above all an iconoclast who loved to scandalize the staff, the more pompous the better.

He is credited by numerous anecdotes, the most famous being when he was a senator by royal designation in the Transition, the president of the Chamber reprimanded him for falling asleep.

"I'm not asleep, I'm sleeping, which

replied.

's television show

when she swore to be able to

Or when he stated that "in Spain only a minority fuck a lot and well".

However, his

of

is closer to a

than to the real Cela, as revealed to LOC by his only son, Camilo José Cela Conde (76), born from the writer's first marriage to

, deceased in 2003.

Camilo José Cela Conde.GTRES

Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of the Balearic Islands and professor at the University of California, he returned to Mallorca in 2019 to study brain networks. Author of the book

, assures that

or people around, that character who seemed to eat raw children for breakfast disappeared. At home he was

He liked to sit in the garden, have a beer with clams in the Bonanova, and put a wild flower on his lapel.

, I remember him as someone

. Precisely they awarded him the Nobel Prize for the

His characters were losers crushed by fate and with whom he empathized."

Did your father love scatology? His anecdote is famous when, at a very busy lunch, he let out a loud fart and, to the blush of his table companion, exclaimed loudly: "Don't worry, ma'am, I'll say it was me. "Yes, farts and especially belches, which are easier to hide, were your favorite weapons to scandalize. Did you use to practice it at home? I imagine that once, like everyone else, but it was not usual, ha ha Coinciding with his beginnings as a writer, at the age of 28 he married his mother, Rosario, who sacrificed everything for her husband to shine in literature. What was life like for his parents Almost the only thing my father did was write, sometimes he didn't even sit down to eat. At first we lived in Madrid, on Ríos Rosas street.The house had a very long corridor and my mother did everything possible so that he could concentrate, because a small child and a writer do not mix well, so my room was at the opposite end of where he wrote. Were you aware of his literary caliber? When he was 4 years old he published

. For me, my father writing was normal, but at school I began to realize it because the parents of my classmates were doctors or butchers and we did not study them, but we studied my father in Literature. Already at university, where I studied Anthropology, I was aware that he had been one of the writers who changed the literary landscape, post-war Spain was a cultural wasteland and Cela was a renaissance that not even his enemies can question. write, I would play little with you. Sometimes he took me to the movies. I remember once at the Cebreros festivities, in Ávila, where we rented a house in the summer, that the two of us went up in a gondola that swayed and it seemed to me that we reached the sky.even during the Franco regime he became a political censor of the regime to persecute dissidents. He said that he stopped fighting in the war because he was injured by a grenade, but I think that is not true, it seems that he was admitted to a tuberculosis sanatorium due to a relapse of his disease . When he left he settled in the house of some uncles in La Coruña, but in order to return to Madrid he had to apply for a position as censor. They shouldn't trust him too much because they assigned him the bulletin of the Pharmaceutical Association. Regarding his fame as a right-wing man, I know that during the Transition he always voted for the Socialist Party. As a child he told me that there were three things I shouldn't do: be a priest, military or right-wing. What anecdote do you especially remember with him?but I think that is not true, it seems that he was admitted to a tuberculosis sanatorium due to a relapse of his disease. When he left he settled in the house of some uncles in La Coruña, but in order to return to Madrid he had to apply for a position as censor. They shouldn't trust him too much because they assigned him the bulletin of the Pharmaceutical College. Regarding his fame as a right-wing man, I know that during the Transition he always voted for the Socialist Party. As a child he told me that there were three things I shouldn't do: be a priest, military or right-wing. What anecdote do you remember with him in particular? Afterbut I think that is not true, it seems that he was admitted to a tuberculosis sanatorium due to a relapse of his disease. When he left he settled in the house of some uncles in La Coruña, but in order to return to Madrid he had to apply for a position as censor. They shouldn't trust him too much because they assigned him the bulletin of the Pharmaceutical Association. Regarding his fame as a right-wing man, I know that during the Transition he always voted for the Socialist Party. As a child he told me that there were three things I shouldn't do: be a priest, military or right-wing. What anecdote do you remember with him in particular? AfterThey shouldn't trust him too much because they assigned him the bulletin of the Pharmaceutical College. Regarding his fame as a right-wing man, I know that during the Transition he always voted for the Socialist Party. As a child he told me that there were three things I shouldn't do: be a priest, military or right-wing. What anecdote do you especially remember with him?They shouldn't trust him too much because they assigned him the bulletin of the Pharmaceutical College. Regarding his fame as a right-wing man, I know that during the Transition he always voted for the Socialist Party. As a child he told me that there were three things I shouldn't do: be a priest, military or right-wing. What anecdote do you remember with him in particular? After

in 1951, went decades without publishing any novel. One day my mother, the first to read his writings, called me to show me some pages of my father. They were really bad, but my mother didn't want to tell her so I had to. He kicked me out of his office and then he locked himself up and spent some time without going out to eat or sleep. This is how his novel

came about , so I am proud that he got angry.

The scandal also accompanied Cela's personal life, when he decided to leave his wife, Rosario Conde, whom he married in 1944 and shared his harsh literary beginnings, for a very young Marina Castaño

who was 28 years old when he was 68. The met three years earlier and introduced her as his secretary. "Rosario, I fell in love like a cadet, life is short and the time I have left I want to spend with Marina," he told his wife in 1988 after undergoing a serious operation.

How did you experience the breakup between your parents? I left home in 1970 and maintained normal contact with them, sometimes going to lunch or dinner and lending a hand with papers if necessary. Then I married Gisele and my daughter Camila was born in 1989. I didn't find out about the existence of that lady until much later, my mother was used to my father leading his life, and at home they didn't talk about those intimate issues. It all happened when they operated on my father for life or death in the Ruber de Madrid in 1988 for intestinal diverticula, he was very serious, we thought he would surely die. He no longer returned to Mallorca with my mother, but the separation for me was then a minor anecdote in the face of what meant that my father saved his life. Honestly, we didn't know if that relationship was going to prosper either.

This infatuation was surprising in a man as skeptical of feelings as his father, who said that his marriage to Rosario worked because it had been convenient, "as marriages should be." Marina Castaño herself assured in her day that

, without feelings involved.

In response, his son shows LOC

the only ones that have seen the light among many that he is currently cataloging. The first dates from June 30, 1941, being boyfriends. "You ask me if I remember those kisses we gave each other, so long that we had to stop to breathe. How do you think it is possible that I can forget those happy times spent with you? (...)

The other dates from

and is written from Chile: "Dearest Charo: it's 2 in the morning (...),

So much so that I abandon an opportunity to get rich. I tell you now that I have already made the decision to return...".

After the breakup, he went to live with Marina Castaño and her 10-year-old daughter, Laura, first in Guadalajara and then in Madrid in a

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1989, but

in Stockholm,

before the Swedish monarchs. From then on, Cela mutated, becoming a

regular tabloid

that he had despised so much.

He was married civilly with Marina in 1991

and after obtaining the

, by the church in July 1998.

, and the vice president Álvarez Cascos attended with Gemma Ruiz, and the shipowner Fernando Fernández Tapias with Nuria González among other

.

The estrangement with his son, who did not attend the link, was already evident.

Marina Castaño, her daughter Laura and Camilo José Cela Conde at the writer's funeral in January 2002. GTRES

"I couldn't say why, I don't even know

," says Cela Conde.

After his death, he did not even appear in his obituary

and during his burial in the Santa María de Adina cemetery, he managed to load his coffin thanks to the efforts of some relatives. The coup de grâce came with the

, since

upon discovering that it was false, leaving

. After an arduous battle in the courts for more than a decade, the Supreme Court recognized in 2014 Cela Conde's right to receive two thirds of his paternal inheritance, having to return

his main beneficiaries, 5.2 million, between his widow and the

. of euros.

Were you surprised that your father disinherited you? At that point, everything didn't matter to me.

Miró's painting was kept by my mother, I don't know what she did with it.

But his true legacy was left to me when I would get up in the morning at home and meet Américo Castro or Miró or we would meet in Cannes with Picasso.

The slap to Mariñas and Marina's revenge

dropdown

Cela and Marina met in 1985 during a congress in Santiago. Divorced from a sailor and mother of a girl, she was an

who admired the writer and

. The crush arose, secret at first, because

In 1988, after his serious operation,

, the last train of this inveterate womanizer. A year later, when he won the Nobel Prize, Rosario, his wife of 45 years,

.

With Marina, the writer's life turned upside down in its final stretch: he lived in Madrid, in a chalet in the exclusive Puerta de Hierro urbanization,

wore elegant gold-buttoned blazers and went to lose weight at Incosol de Marbella. Overwhelmed by his wife, he was involved in an

at the Coral Beach hotel , whom he slapped

for information about Marina that bothered him.

After his death, he lost the presidency of the Cela Foundation and part of his juicy inheritance, which the courts forced him to share with the disinherited son of the writer.

As a

, he published

some writings in

with his lovers and that he had countless children around the world, all boys and named Camilo.

Lately, after her wedding to the surgeon Enrique Puras in 2013, she has disappeared from the media spotlight except for a recent intervention in

on Antena 3.

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