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El Viaje a la Alcarria or Journey to the Alcarria is one of the best books I ever read. Sometimes the reader gets tired of the third person perspective, but it is an interesting book to read after all. You find details about the life in the country side of Spain and you discover how the writter felt in those places after living in Madrid. A must read from the classic literature.


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Journey to the Alcarria Travels Through the Spanish Countryside Traveler Camilo Jose Cela 9780871133793 Books Reviews

The Alcarria is a mountainous region northeast of Madrid. In 1946, Cela (who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989) toured the Alcarria, mostly by foot. JOURNEY TO THE ALCARRIA is his account of that tour. It has the virtue of being short (139 pages). The Alcarria turns out to be rustic and simple, as is Cela's account (giving rise to a variant on the chicken-and-egg conundrum). According to the somewhat academic introduction to this edition, by Cela's standards a travel-writer "must react with genuine and simple surprise to what he sees, and jot it down without inventive alteration." Well, Cela followed that formula to a T. There is a sort of rustic charm to the book, but in truth it quickly becomes boring. I don't understand why it is celebrated (to refer to the introduction once again, JOURNEY TO THE ALCARRIA is the "crowning point" of Cela's travel sketches). Nor do I understand, if indeed JOURNEY TO THE ALCARRIA is near the apex of his literary output, why Cela merited a Nobel Prize.
El Viaje a la Alcarria or Journey to the Alcarria is one of the best books I ever read. Sometimes the reader gets tired of the third person perspective, but it is an interesting book to read after all. You find details about the life in the country side of Spain and you discover how the writter felt in those places after living in Madrid. A must read from the classic literature.