The journey to nowhere (novel)

For other uses of this term, see The Journey to Nowhere (disambiguation).

The trip to nowhere is a novel by Fernando Fernán Gómez published in 1985. It was included in the list of the 100 best novels in Spanish of century XX of the Spanish newspaper "The World". Argument

It tells the story of an itinerant theater company that travels through the towns of Castilla-La Mancha from the beginning of Francoism until the cinemas almost completely end with these small companies.

The central figure in the story is Carlos, a "family comic" who grows up throughout the novel and accompanies his father, his son, a young cousin, another cousin, the girlfriend of the central character and a friend; forming all the "Company Iniesta-Galvan".

Count the lives of these people and how they have to adapt to the circumstances of the time; how some of them decide to take another road and leave the theater ... The figure of the "fucking peliculer" is very interesting; through this personage, Fernán Gómez narrates how the primitive industry of the cinema was robbing the public to these companies of theater, heiresses of the comedians of the league. Cinematographic versions

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