Páginas de geografía errabunda

by Camilo José Cela

Madrid. 1965. Alfaguara. 18x10. 317p.

249 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1965

About the author

Camilo José Cela Trulock was a Spaniard writer from Galicia. Prolific author (as a novelist, journalist, essayist, literary magazine editor, lecturer ...), he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy for 45 years and won, among others, the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 1987, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989 ("for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability.") and the Cervantes Prize in 1995.

In 1996 King Juan Carlos I granted him, for his literary merits, the title Marquis of Iria Flavia.

His son, Camilo José Cela Conde is also a writer.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilo_J...

Reviews

[Javier]

Lo mejor del libro, la parte en la que el autor llega a Badajoz en tren y se extraña de que nadie lo esté esperando en la estación:

"- Pero, ¿el tren llegó en punto?
- Sí, el tren llegó en punto.
- Hombre, perdona que no haya bajado a la estación. ¡Cualquiera se lo imaginaba!"

Si llegase hoy, podría repetir el diálogo palabra por palabra...