Luz Gabás: "Every journey transforms us"



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## Luz Gabás: "Every journey transforms us"

15/07/2021 |
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The writer Luz Gabás, author of *Como fuego en el hielo* and *El latido de la tierra*, among other works, has reviewed the role of women travellers in the 19th century and has highlighted the effect of change on people caused by every visit to other places. "Every journey transforms us", she said during her participation in the summer course "Women in literature: great female characters and great female writers" organised by the Universitat Jaume I in Benicàssim. For the writer from Huesca, the journey implies a search for oneself and, when it takes place in a mountainous area such as the Pyrenees, this landscape "changes the traveller, who is capable of perceiving the sublime".

Gabás, who made a detailed review of the main women travellers in the Pyrenees during the 18th and 19th centuries, contrasted this female figure, who mainly came from the European nobility and bourgeoisie, with that of the women from this mountainous area, who were characterised by "their melancholy and reflective gaze". She also reviewed the clichéd view of Spain during the 19th century as an exotic country, capable of "provoking delightful shudders" due to its contrast with the rest of Europe. In this sense, she pointed out what were then considered the main characteristics of the Spanish people, marked by "a tolerant fatalism", in which during the Carlist wars the opposing sides could meet at a verbena after having spent days shooting at each other.

During the review of her last two novels, Gabás also analysed the passing of time, the abandonment of many villages in the 'emptied Spain' and the process of ageing, which, in her opinion, occurs when illusion is lost. Finally, the writer asserted that we live in a tremendously romantic age, in the sense of the exaltation of non-conformism and rebellion, and recalled that this movement was the seed of the great dramatic events of the 20th century.

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Luz Gabás: <https://youtu.be/pGtytQy0Xo8>

Ángeles Caso: <https://youtu.be/YAtmd8TXIgM>  
  
Santiago Posteguillo: <https://youtu.be/_X7d8ePwC7g>

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