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From 12/1/2009 to 29/01/2009
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Love in Spanish Literature
Dulcinea o el amor by Jacques De Bruyne
Simultaneous translation
If Don Quixote is formed of a complex game of mirrors, then the character of
Dulcinea is its best example. The knight’s lover raises a series of
linguistic and literary observations, reflections as well as commentaries
about the relativity of life and about this fascinating phenomenon that we
commonly call LOVE.
Jacques De Bruyne is Emeritus Professor as the University of Ghent, Head of
Charles V Professorship, Correspondent Member of the North American Academy
of Spanish Language, Honour Academic of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence
and Legislation and Honorary Research Fellow at Queen Mary and Westfield
College.
Lecture
Thursday 15 January, 6.30pm
<http://londres.cervantes.es/FichasCultura/Ficha52469_22_2.htm> BOOK
PRESENTATION <http://londres.cervantes.es/FichasCultura/Ficha51798_22_2.htm>
Blind Sunflowers by Alberto Méndez. Translated by Nick Caistor, published by
Arcadia Books.
Presented by Nick Caistor. Interview by Nick Rankin.
In English
A captain of Franco’s army renounces winning the war on the very day of its
victory; a young poet flees with his pregnant girlfriend and is forced to
grow up quickly, only to die within a few months; a prisoner in Porlier’s
jail refuses to live a lie so that his executioner can be held accountable;
and a lustful deacon hides his desires behind the apostolic fascism that
clamours for the purifying blood of the defeated.
Alberto Méndez (Madrid 1941-2004) worked for both Spanish and international
publishing companies. Blind Sunflowers was awarded the Sentenil Prize
(2004), the Critic’s Prize and the National Prize for Literature (2005) and
was serialised in The New Yorker in 2006.
Presentation
Tuesday 20 January, 6.30pm
SERIES: Film
<http://londres.cervantes.es/FichasCultura/Ficha52191_22_2.htm> Cinema from
Andalusia
<http://londres.cervantes.es/FichasCultura/Ficha52198_22_2.htm> El Corazón
de la Tierra Directed by Antonio Cuadri (2007) 90’
In Spanish with English subtitles
February 1888 – the British company that owns the well known mines of Río
tinto, the biggest mines in the world, has its workers labouring under
deplorable conditions. The miners go on strike; the army intervenes, ending
in a bloodbath.
In collaboration with the Consejería de Cultura of the Junta de Andalucía.
Film
Friday 23 January, 5.30pm
Cinema and Literature
Change to previously programmed activity – see below
Cinema and Literature by José Luis Borau.
Simultaneous translation
The increasing importance of cinematographic symbols in narrative literature
is a sign of the times. This influence is at times disclosed, at others
concealed and in many cases even unknown to the authors themselves. In
short, to a certain degree, a new model of literary expression has been
born.
José Luis Borau is a film director, producer, scriptwriter, actor and critic
of Spanish cinema. He has directed a number of well known Spanish films
including ‘En el Río’ (1960), ‘Hay que matar a B’ (1965), ‘Furtivos’ (1975)
and ‘Leo’ (2000). In July 2007, he was elected President of the ‘Sociedad
General de Autores y Editores’ (‘General Association of Authors and
Publishers’) and in February 2008, was named an academic of the Real
Academia Española, taking the place of Fernando Fernán Gómez. Borau’s
introductory speech was responded to by Mario Vargas Llosa.
Note: this cultural activity replaces, due to circumstances beyond our
control, the previously programmed ‘El cuento que vendrá: Relato de relatos
o cómo escribí Los peces de la amargura’ by Fernando Aramburu.
Lecture
Thursday 29 January, 6.30pm
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