The Family of Pascual Duarte is perhaps the most famous work of the poet Camilo José Cela, who received the Nobel Prize for his entire body of work in 1989. The protagonist, Pascual Duarte, a simple farm laborer, grows up amidst violence until his primitive living conditions lead him to become the murderer of his own mother. The black humor that characterizes the aesthetics of Cela's tremendismo presents an ironic reflection of the brutality of the Spanish Civil War in The Family of Pascual Duarte. Davina Radeck raises the question of how Cela's work should be evaluated within the context of the post-war period and what significance it holds in today's world.