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Readings in stereo is the title chosen for the literary act in which the writers Antonio and Rafael Reig Orejudo will discuss his latest novel, A moment of rest (Critical State Award 2011) and All is forgiven (VI Tusquets Publishers Award for Best Novel), respectively , both published by Tusquets.
It will be at the Interpretation Center of the Punic Wall at 24.00 h., Organized by the Nobel Mandarache in Night of the Museums of Cartagena.
These are two of the more prominent writers of his generation and projection.
And the most iconoclastic innovators and the panorama of contemporary Spanish novel.
The fact that both are very good friends for 30 years, share a birth year, were fellow students, and have spent years in the USA taught Spanish literature at the college circuit, together with other aspects of his singular intelligence and character - ensure a full act of strength and quality by the common passion for literature.
The novels that bring them to Cartagena have received critical acclaim:
All is forgiven for it is said:
Perhaps the most ambitious and complex novel Author's Reig is a brilliant and imaginative writer, capable of delivering nuclear angles "Perhaps the most ambitious and complex novel Author's Reig is a brilliant and imaginative writer, able to offer new and unexpected angles the familiar. Ricardo Senabre, The Cultural World.
In a moment of rest has been said:
A step in the unique expertise that is capable of spinning Orejudo fantastic adventures and real stories, charming and sad realities nonsense Did traps Orejudo literature, sports, teaching and entertaining as the big ones.
We all have at some point. Fernando Castanedo, Babelia, El País.
NOTES biographical Charts
Orejudo Antonio was born in Madrid in 1963.
Doctor of philology, for seven years he taught Spanish literature at various universities in the United States and has spent a year as a guest researcher at the University of Amsterdam.
He is currently professor at the University of Almería.
He is the author of four novels: Fabulous stories by stories (1996, which recovered Editors Tusquets definitive edition in 2007), Advantages of traveling by train (2000, now welcome in our catalog), Reconstruction (2005) and a moment of rest ( 2011).
All of them, very different from each other, form the coherent body of one of the most brilliant storytellers in Spanish.
Published for over a decade, traveling by train novelaVentajas chains, like Cervantes, inexhaustible inventive stories in a circular structure masterfully resolved.
During reading, moreover, the story itself questions the credibility pact with the reader, the limits of madness and lucidity, impersonation, and the distinction between reality and imagination.
Rafael Reig was born in Cangas de Onis (Asturias) in 1963, Colombia experienced during his childhood, and studied Philosophy at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.
He taught literature at New York, where his doctorate, and at several U.S. universities.
He currently teaches creative writing school Hotel Kafka, and contributes to various publications, both paper and digital.
His novel Blood on the Saddle (2002), Critics Award of Asturias, was elected one of the five best novels in Spanish, 2002 by Lara Foundation.
He is also author of the novels That dark people (1990), Autobiography of Marilyn Monroe (1992), Formula Omega (1998), Pretty face (2004) and Captain Carpeto Deeds (2005) have several of them translated into several languages ¿, the successful literary essay literature cannibals Manual (2006) and Volume Seen for judgment (2008), which gathers their news articles.
Winner of the VI Pr Emio Tusquets Novel Publishers, All is forgiven tells a disturbing police investigation into an unusual Madrid waterway, and paints a realistic and ironic portrait of both the years of transition, reinterpreted from a viewpoint unprecedented in Hispanic literature.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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