"El Espectador" was born to become a one-man magazine written by José Ortega y Gasset. The philosopher's duties prevented him from fulfilling the project, but he published eight volumes between 1916 and 1934. In the present edition, we offer two of them.

We find in them the thinker, curious about everything that happens in the world, who describes what he sees with prose full of metaphors, especially beautiful in his travel notes, and some of his deepest philosophical reflections, along with fine literary criticism, on Baroja and Azorín, and artistic criticism, on Titian, Poussin, Velázquez.