Old Spain and new Spain

"This study examines the six travel books written by the recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature, the Spanish novelist, travel writer, and critic, Camilo Jose Cela (1916-2002). These accounts of journeys made by the author through various areas and regions of Spain were published between 1948 and 1986 and reveal the writer's interest in the geography of his country as well as its cultural heritage. In addition, they reflect economic and social changes taking place in Spain from the harsh, post-civil war years of the 1940s to the restoration of democracy in the late 1970s and the consumerism of the 1980s."--BOOK JACKET.