Summary
Jose Maria de Pereda: Mountain Roads
A novel from the period of realism that uses a mythicizing process to clothe such elements as the religious-mystical dream of Arcadia, the return to nature (the goddess Nature) and the pastoral ideal, as well as the hero's obligation to the community. The author creates an idealized image of a provincial rural community in whose aegis the protagonist experiences a true conversion, and in which a mythical and real, idyllic and socio-political, Arcadian and religio-cultural revival should take place at the same time.
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