Spain: the country of hot sun, purple roses, rich art, Carmen and Don Quixote? Or is it the country of Sancho, religious and political frenzy, barbaric bullfighting, and fratricidal hatred? Its civil turmoil: a "private" affair or a universal one? The multifaceted, suffering face of the beloved country, before and during the Civil War that marked it internally and internationally, is attempted to be captured by the unmatched pen of Nikos Kazantzakis, correspondent of Athenian newspapers, but above all, an incurable traveler.

"Nikos Kazantzakis gathers in this book his travel experiences in Spanish territories before and during the civil war. It is a diary where historical rigor collaborates with a firsthand human documentation, to outline an impartial and passionate panorama of the Spanish reality."

Kazantzakis was in Spain as an observer and press correspondent, collecting the great political and psychological upheavals of the country. The book Traveling Spain thus becomes a contradictory vision of a society on the eve of its terrible war confrontation and the events that took place until the fall of Madrid. An exceptional witness, the Greek author demonstrates in these pages his ability to interpret the "life" and "death" of Spain with precision."