Journey to the Alcarria: Travels Through the Spanish Countryside (Traveler) [Idioma Inglés] - Tapa blanda

Jose-Cela, C.

 
9780871133793: Journey to the Alcarria: Travels Through the Spanish Countryside (Traveler) [Idioma Inglés]
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ISBN 10: 0871133792 ISBN 13: 9780871133793
Editorial: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994

Sinopsis

Awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature, Camilo Jos Cela has long been recognized as one of the preeminent Spanish writers of the twentieth century. Journey to the Alcarria is the best known of his vagabundajes, Cela's term for his books of travels, sketchbooks of regions or provinces. The Alcarria is a territory in New Castile, northeast of Madrid, surrounding most of the Guadalajara province. The region is high, rocky, and dry, and is famous for its honey. Cela himself is "the traveler," an urban intellectual wandering from village to village, through farms and along country roads, in search of the Spanish character. Cela relishes his encounters with the simple, honest people of the Spanish countryside--the blushing maid in the tavern, the small-town shopkeeper with airs of grandeur lonely for companionship, the old peasant with his donkey who freely shares his bread and blanket with the stranger. These vignettes are narrated in a fresh, clear prose that is wonderfully evocative. As the New York Times wrote, Cela is "an outspoken observer of human life who built his reputation on portray-ing what he observed in a direct colloquial style.". NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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Awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature, Camilo Jos Cela has long been recognized as one of the preeminent Spanish writers of the twentieth century. Journey to the Alcarria is the best known of his vagabundajes, Cela's term for his books of travels, sketchbooks of regions or provinces. The Alcarria is a territory in New Castile, northeast of Madrid, surrounding most of the Guadalajara province. The region is high, rocky, and dry, and is famous for its honey. Cela himself is "the traveler," an urban intellectual wandering from village to village, through farms and along country roads, in search of the Spanish character. Cela relishes his encounters with the simple, honest people of the Spanish countryside--the blushing maid in the tavern, the small-town shopkeeper with airs of grandeur lonely for companionship, the old peasant with his donkey who freely shares his bread and blanket with the stranger. These vignettes are narrated in a fresh, clear prose that is wonderfully evocative. As the New York Times wrote, Cela is "an outspoken observer of human life who built his reputation on portray-ing what he observed in a direct colloquial style.". NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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Editorial
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Año de publicación
1994
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0871133792
ISBN 13 
9780871133793
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
288
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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9781853995934: Journey to the Alcarria (BCP Spanish Texts)

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  1853995932 ISBN 13:  9781853995934
Editorial: Cost of Conscience, 2006
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