by Camilo José Cela · Booket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423333943
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«Viaje a la Alcarria» is the travelogue by Camilo José Cela, published by Booket in paperback (202 pages, in Spanish).
A traveler walks through the villages and roads of the Alcarria with his knapsack and canteen, noting encounters and conversations with local people. Amid anecdotes, vagabonds, traders and humble characters, Cela composes a chronicle of rural postwar Spain with accessible prose that blends realism, humor and tenderness.
The book, first title in the «Viaje a la Alcarria» series, was originally published in 1948.
Recommended for readers interested in twentieth-century Spanish literature, travel writing and the portrayal of rural Spain.
Camilo José Cela y Trulock, 1st Marquess of Iria Flavia was a Spanish novelist, poet, story writer and essayist associated with the Generation of '36 movement.
