tremendismo

literary style

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In Camilo José Cela
…the narrative style known as tremendismo, a tendency to emphasize violence and grotesque imagery.
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In Spanish literature: The novel
…by expressionistic distortion) known as tremendismo. Continuing his literary experimentation, Cela attained greater technical heights in La colmena (1951; The Hive), portraying divided Madrid society during the harsh winter of 1941–42. By his death, in 2002, Cela—who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989—had published by his own count…
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In Carmen Laforet
…postwar narrative style known as tremendismo, which is characterized by a tendency to emphasize violence and grotesque imagery. A novel read for its narrative, political, and existential elements, Nada is direct and unaffected.
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