Journey to the Alcarria. Travels Through the Spanish Countryside
Cela, Camilo Jose
Journey to the Alcarria. Travels Through the Spanish Countryside
Cela, Camilo Jose
Publisher: The Atlantic Monthly Press
Date published: 1990
Format: Paperback.
Translated by Frances M. Lopez-Morillas. With an introduction on the picaresque or vagabundo writing tradition in Spain by Paul Ilie. In bright, clean condition.
Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. Winner of the Nobel Prize. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.
London:: Quartet,, (1993). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.. First UK printing. A novel which "represents a culmination of the 1989 Nobel Prize winner Camilo Jose Cela's literary art. In 1936, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, 'Lionheart' Gamuzo is abducted and killed, an event recalled repeatedly by the widowed Adega, one of the several narrative voices. In 1939, when the war ends, Tanis Gamuzo avenges his brother. For both events, and for them only, the blind accordion player Gaudencio plays the same mazurka." Originally published in Spain in 1983 and translated by Patricia Haugaard. 312 pp.
New York:: New American Library - NAL,, (1992). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First US printing. A novel which "represents a culmination of the 1989 Nobel Prize winner Camilo Jose Cela's literary art. In 1936, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, 'Lionheart' Gamuzo is abducted and killed, an event recalled repeatedly by the widowed Adega, one of the several narrative voices. In 1939, when the war ends, Tanis Gamuzo avenges his brother. For both events, and for them only, the blind accordion player Gaudencio plays the same mazurka." Originally published in Spain in 1983 and translated by Patricia Haugaard. 312 pp.
Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1964 First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 139 p. Black and white photographs. Travels on foot through the Spanish countryside. Translated by Frances M. Lopez-Morillas. Library marks include labels, barcode, pocket and stamps. Very little wear. Very good in very good dustjacket in mylar cover.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, (1946).. First UK edition.. 128 pp. Very good plus in boards, lacking dust jacket. Translated from the Spanish by John Marks.
Boston: Atlantic Monthly/Little, Brown, (1964).. First US edition.. 166 pp. Lean to spine, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with two short edge-tears to rear panel. Translated from the Spanish with an introduction by Anthony Kerrigan.
London: Victor Gollancz,, 1953.. First UK edition.. 255 pp. Foxing to page edges, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with a small chip to rear panel, a tear to crown, and tanning to spine. Introduction by Arturo Barea. Translated by J.M. Cohen in consultation with Barea.
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