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portada journey to the alcarria: travels through the spanish countryside (in English)
Type
Physical Book
Year
1994
Language
English
Pages
288
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
21.0 x 14.1 x 1.3 cm
Weight
0.20 kg.
ISBN
0871133792
ISBN13
9780871133793

journey to the alcarria: travels through the spanish countryside (in English)

Camilo José Cela (Author) · Atlantic Monthly Press · Paperback

journey to the alcarria: travels through the spanish countryside (in English) - Camilo José Cela

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Synopsis "journey to the alcarria: travels through the spanish countryside (in English)"

Awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature, Camilo José 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."
Camilo José Cela
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Camilo José Cela Trulock (Iria Flavia, A Coruña, 11 de mayo de 1916 - Madrid, 17 de enero de 2002), escritor y académico español, es uno de los autores imprescindibles en el canon de la literatura en lengua española. En 1925 se trasladó a Madrid con su familia y en 1934 comenzó estudios de Medicina en la Universidad Complutense que pronto abandonó para asistir como oyente a las clases de Literatura Contemporánea de Pedro Salinas. Es Salinas, a quien Cela enseña sus primeros poemas, una figura clave para el asiento de su vocación literaria. En 1940, Cela intenta una nueva carrera, esta vez Derecho -que también acabará abandonando-, mientras escribe su primera gran obra, La familia de Pascual Duarte (1942), cuya segunda edición tuvo que ser publicada en Buenos Aires al prohibirla la censura. A esta primera novela siguieron, poco después, Viaje a La Alcarria (1948) y La colmena (1951), publicada en Buenos Aires e inmediatamente prohibida en España. En 1954 se traslada a Mallorca y poco después, en 1957, es nombrado académico de la lengua. Su obra, extensa y variada, se publica con asiduidad desde entonces. Entre ella, además de los títulos ya mencionados, cabe destacar El gallego y su cuadrilla (1949), Del Miño al Bidasoa (1952), San Camilo, 1936 (1969), Mazurca para dos muertos (1983, Premio Nacional de Narrativa) o Cristo versus Arizona (1988). A ellas habría que añadir su labor como articulista para distintos diarios. Entre los premios que atesoró a lo largo de su vida es obligado citar el Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras (1987), el Nobel de Literatura (1989) y el Miguel de Cervantes (1995).
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