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The presentation will take place in the Municipal Archives of Cartagena on Thursday, February 28 at 7 pm |
On Thursday, February 28, it will be presented at 7:00 p.m.
in the Municipal Archive of Cartagena the book 'Letters to Katherine Mansfield', by Carmen Cartagena writer Carmen Conde.
The activity, which will have the intervention of the Councilor of the Area of ​​Culture, Tourism and Equality of Cartagena, David Martínez Noguera.
The event will consist of a colloquium with the participation of Francisco Javier Díez de Revenga, Professor of Spanish Literature and Professor Emeritus Honorary of the University of Murcia;
Fran Garcerá, predoctoral researcher of the CCHS-CSIC and responsible for the philological edition of the text;
and Elena Medel, writer and director of the publishing house La Bella Varsovia, who has published the book.
The return of this work to bookstores, which will be presented in nearby dates in the cities of Murcia, Madrid and Zaragoza, coincides with the fortieth anniversary of the entry of Carmen Conde at the Royal Spanish Academy.
In 1935, Carmen Conde began a deep friendship with Katherine Mansfield, who died twelve years ago.
The literary relationships of the living with the dead can be fruitful, and Carmen Conde this dialogue in one direction allowed her a greater knowledge of herself, her concerns and her intimate swings, from a stylistically rich and intelligent exercise: Mansfield was an interlocutor and mirror, silent and necessary friend, support to break through -with a strong vocation- in a world of men.
In these Letters to Katherine Mansfield -which La Bella Varsovia reissues complete here for the first time, with Fran Garcerá's edition- laten daily life and existential doubts, death and suicidal drives, the strange joy of the little things that the world offers and the absorbing mystery of artistic creation.
Carmen Conde (Cartagena, Murcia, 1907-Majadahonda, Madrid, 1996) is one of the most significant voices of Spanish literature of the twentieth century, as well as one of the most lucid examples of defense and visibility of women's writing.
Very prolific author, she cultivated diverse genres, contributing in all of them her particular vision and her rich command of language.
She was awarded the National Prize twice: in 1967 by Obra Poética (1929-1966), in the category of Poetry, and in 1987 by Canciones de nana y desvelo, in the category of Children and Youth Literature.
In 1992 he bequeathed to Cartagena City Council all his literary work and his documentary archive, and in 1995 the Carmen Conde-Antonio Oliver Board of Trustees was established.
Fran Garcerá (Puerto de Sagunto, Valencia, 1988) is a FPI predoctoral researcher at the Center for Human and Social Sciences of the CSIC, where he completed his PhD thesis on Spanish poets of the Silver Age (1900-1936).
Among the results of his research is the recovery of different poets of this period through the scientific edition of his works, as is the case of Margarita Ferreras, Mercedes Pinto and María Cegarra Salcedo, all published by the Torremozas publishing house.
She highlights her work on the work of Carmen Conde, with the edition of Letters to Katherine Mansfield (La Bella Varsovia, 2019), the dramatic work Mineros (Torremozas, 2018) -written by Carmen Conde and María Cegarra- and the correspondence maintained by both , which is the most extensive correspondence between two Spanish authors published to date (Torremozas, 2018).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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