``The Family of Pascual Duarte`` is the story of Pascual Duarte--a Spanish peasant born into a brutal world of poverty, hatred, and depravity--as told from his prison cell, where he awaits execution for the murders he\'s committed throughout his lifetime.
Originally published in the same year as Camus\'s ``The Stranger``-.
Despite his savage and cruel impulses, Pascual retains a childlike sense of the world and a groping desire to understand the blows of fate that led him down his bloody path. ``The Family of Pascual Duarte`` is the story of Pascual Duarte--a Spanish peasant born into a brutal world of poverty, hatred, and depravity--as told from his prison cell, where he awaits execution for the murders he\'s committed throughout his lifetime
