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The scenes of his childhood, the landscape of his native Úbeda and the distances of the Guadalquivir valley, are continually present in the work of Muñoz Molina, as the author himself reveals: “(…) I like many places, but I see the landscape of the Guadalquivir Valley from the walls of my city and that landscape moves me in a way that no other landscape moves me. (…)” Interview with Antonio Muñoz Molina. Librújula Magazine. February 25, 2016. An intimacy revealed in many of his novels and where the viewpoints of Úbeda serve as a watchtower to reveal the aesthetic qualities and feelings that they provoke in him. “(…) I remember the vertigo of looking out from the viewpoints of the wall and seeing before my eyes all the depth of the precipices and the unlimited extension of the world, the terraces of the orchards, the hills of the olive groves, the broken and distant shine of the river, the dark blue of the foothills of the Sierra, the profile of a toppled statue of Mount Aznaitín (…).” Antonio Muñoz Molina. The Polish Horseman. "(...) He too, Solana, had looked as a child at that space of unlimited light and returned to it to die, open Mágina streets that seemed as if they were going to end before the sea and embankments like cliff balconies or high maritime viewpoints from where he looked out at all the clarity of the world violated only by the greed of his pupils and the fables of his imagination (...)". Antonio Muñoz Molina. Beatus Ille.
