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Maestro Of The Rude Gesture

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Camilo Jose Cela should have been a character in one of his own novels: no ordinary biography could have done justice to his life, but his earthy prose might have.

He died last week at 85 from what the medics called chronic heart disease and what he would have called old age following upon a life more packed with incident than most.

His novels and other writings

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First Published: Jan 22 2002 | 12:00 AM IST

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