Title: Landscape image. The Generation of 98 and Ortega y Gasset.
Author: Eduardo Martinez de Pison.
Editorial: Fórcola
Sentence: «The landscape is a way to enter not only in geographical, but in the spirit".
Critical Vap: Who better than a teacher of Spanish geography as Eduardo Martinez de Pison to get into the landscapes of the Generation of 98? In this book full of literary horizons, the reader will walk the wastelands pining Castilians by Machado ("Toward the high plains flees my heart"); feel, as Unamuno, Nostalgia de Ávila ("I carry your vision attached to the bottom of the soul") or wander through the pine forests of the Sierra accompanying Ortega ("My natural outlet to the world opens the ports of Guadarrama"). This science of the places that a wise man, as Martinez de Pison, addressed as no one can dig into the psychology of the landscape through the reflections of these great writers. The landscape, as, as literary intuitions scenario.
But do not panic. "The image of the landscape" is not, at all, a flood of literary quotes for scholars. On the contrary, Rammer Martinez joins us with great naturalness on a fascinating journey, Basque Central System, fields of Castilla to Fuerteventura, where such distinguished writers are at some walkers who apostille, praise or censure for his comments on the Spanish landscape.
In these times of anxiety where everything around us to take down any patriotism invites, maybe we should turn our eyes to the landscape that surrounds us (too often without us to pay the slightest attention). To, ultimately, check Azorín was right. "No we will love our country, we will love not well, if you do not know. Feel our landscape, infiltremos our spirit in the landscape ". To persevere in this desire, The book is bound Martinez de Pison travel companion.
