Winner of the Nobel Prize: Journey to the Alcarria: Travels Through the Spanish Countryside (Paperback)

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The author, who won a Pulitzer later in life, recounts his travels in Spain's Alcarria region. He enjoyed talking to locals or doing things based on opportunity. The tale seemed to be as erratic as his planning for the journey had been. The narrative ended somewhat abruptly although some hints of...

from Dreesie

This short novel is a travelogue/memoir of a walking trip through the Alcarria region of Spain in the 1940s. It is interesting, but knowing little of the area or really of Spain in general, I couldn't really relate to it. The parts I found most interesting revolved around old buildings and curren...

from AriadneAranea

A rather evocative and meandering account of Cela's wanderings through the Spanish region of the Alcarria, during the 1940s, just a few years after the civil war. You do get used to Cela's slightly annoying self-deprecating use of the third person to refer to himself (namelessly, as "the travelle...

from Kristelh

Or travels through the Spanish Countryside is a travel book of Camilo José Cela. The author was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize of Literature. It is a sketchbook of the region of Alcarria. The author decides to go on a walk. He does ride a bus, some carts but generally walks. He gives us his impress...

from igorversteeg

This is a great book to read when feeling absolutely drained.