Yecla in Azorín's novel "La Voluntad" Curiosity · Yecla, Altiplano, Murcia Image of Yecla, not of the place itself. The first part of 'La Voluntad' (1902), the novel that made the writer José Martínez Ruiz 'Azorín' famous and with which he began to use that pen name, is set in Yecla, portrayed as a symbol of traditional, unchanging Spain. Photo: Enrique Íñiguez Rodríguez (CC BY-SA 3.0) What to see and do in Yecla