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With the Critical Eye of Narrative Award under his arm, Irene Vallejo (Zaragoza, 1979) arrives this Thursday, March 5, at 8:00 p.m., at the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center library, within the Cartagena Piensa program organized by the Department of Culture of the City Council of Cartagena, to present the book that has been deserving of that recognition, El infinito en un reed (Siruela).
This essay, which is already in its eighth edition, takes a tour of the origins of the book and recreates the unlikely current survival of this object, the greatest legacy of classical culture.
The meeting with Irene Vallejo will be presented by Flori Celdrán, Professor of History at IES Isaac Peral.
In her work, the author, PhD in Classical Philology by the universities of Zaragoza and Florence, claims that, although it is difficult to remember today, during most of history the books were handmade, scarce, expensive and fragile objects.
Exclusive guardians of knowledge who kept the advances, interests, knowledge and visions of the world of ancient civilizations alive for successive generations.
Infinity in a reed is a book about the history of books.
A journey through the life of that fascinating artifact that was invented so that words could travel in space and time.
The history of its manufacture, of all types that has been tested over almost thirty centuries: books of smoke, stone, clay, reeds, silk, fur, trees and, the latest arrivals, of plastic and light
Irene Vallejo's book is also a travel book.
A route with stops in the battlefields of Alexander and in the Village of the Papyri under the eruption of Vesuvius, in the palaces of Cleopatra and in the scene of the crime of Hipatia, in the first known bookstores and in the workshops of handwritten copy , in the fires where banned codices burned, in the gulag, in the Sarajevo library and in the underground labyrinth of Oxford in 2000. A thread that unites the classics with the vertiginous contemporary world, connecting them with current debates: Aristophanes and judicial proceedings against humorists, Safo and the literary voice of women, Tito Livio and the fan phenomenon, Seneca and the post-truth ...
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Irene Vallejo studied Classical Philology and obtained a European PhD from the universities of Zaragoza and Florence.
At present, he carries out an intense work of dissemination of the classical world giving lectures and through his weekly column in the newspaper Heraldo de Aragón.
His literary work includes the novels The buried light (2011) and The Whistle of the Archer (2015), the journalistic anthology Someone talked about us (2017) and children's books The Inventor of Travel (2014) and The Legend of Tidal Tides (2015).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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