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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aAndanzas y visiones españolas |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026 |
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| 500 | _aCollection of articles originally published in journals and newspapers between June 1911 and March 1922. | ||
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2026-02-27 | ||
| 508 | _aAndrés V. Galia, Santiago and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) | ||
| 520 | _a"Andanzas y visiones españolas" by Miguel de Unamuno is a collection of travel essays and reflections written in the early 20th century. It gathers chronologically arranged excursions across Spain, weaving landscape sketches with meditations on history, faith, identity, and modern life. The traveling narrator seeks the country’s spirit in monasteries, mountains, and old towns, finding meaning in silence, ruins, and rural rhythms. The opening of the work lays out its aim: to collect landscape pieces and travel visions that Unamuno kept separate from his novels so readers can savor scenery and contemplation on their own. He begins at the Cistercian ruins of Moreruela, turning their grandeur and decay into prayers to quiet, enclosure, and the search for God within. He then recounts a recent ascent to Gredos—exalting the silence of high places, mocking news-chasing and “progress,” praising simplicity, and preparing another retreat to the Peña de Francia. From that summit he writes of shared quiet with friends, inward examination, and vast perspectives over humble villages, invoking Senancour’s Obermann to name the mountain’s metaphysical hush. A letter-essay contrasts city bustle with the moral calm of the countryside, recalls formative landscapes (Vizcaya, the Apennines), criticizes tourism-by-fashion, and treats the field as an ethical gospel. A Holy Week journey follows through Medina del Campo, Olmedo, and Arévalo, mingling history (Isabel, Enrique IV, the Beltraneja, the comuneros) with vivid village life and the haunting sight of an abandoned cemetery. It culminates with arrival at El Escorial, where he rebuts guidebook prejudices and defends the austere, “arid” beauty of the monastery and the Castilian landscape. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cMadrid: Renacimiento, 1922 |
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| 653 | _aSpain -- Description and travel | ||
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