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The mayor of Cartagena and the Board President Carmen Conde-Antonio Oliver, Pilar Barreiro, along with the director general of the National Library, Milagros del Corral, and the president of the State Society for Cultural Commemorations, under the Ministry of Culture, JOSE GARCIA -VELASCO, will open on Thursday 12 June at the National Library, the exhibition CARMEN CONDE.
Creative will, and will remain open until 17 August.
One hundred years after his birth, the relevance of the figure and the literary works of Carmen Conde (Cartagena, 1907-Madrid, 1996) remains valid.
Poet, novelist, playwright and especially women of action, Carmen Conde took initiatives of historical significance, as the People's University of Cartagena, which he founded with her husband, fellow poet Antonio Oliver Belmar, in the years of the Republic.
But Carmen Conde is much more.
From a young age, turned to the cultivation of literature, beginning his poetry by the verse but prose, the prose poem, in those years, only the finest spirits grew and she went to renew and encourage Through his early works.
Francisco Javier Diez de Revenga, professor in the Department of Spanish Literature, Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of Murcia, is the curator of this exhibition which brings together nearly three hundred pieces, among which include part of the cultural legacy of the writer, owned by the City of Cartagena, as well as other elements that help to contextualize his life: unpublished documents, manuscripts, newspapers, magazines, books, furniture, correspondence with Nobel Prize for Literature as Juan Ramón Jiménez, Gabriel Mistral, Vicente Aleixandre, Pablo Neruda, Camilo Jose Cela and personal belongings, photographs, and other memorabilia.
In this regard, he stressed the importance of his personal library, consisting of nearly 10,000 volumes, among which there are valuable first editions, many with autographs of the authors.
The show, which has already been seen in Cartagena and Murcia, aims to show the strong will of a woman who, from his youth, struggled to assert their intellectual, surviving the hardships of misunderstanding and political persecution, to stand Logar in the forefront of national academic activity, while developed one of the most outstanding literary works, especially relevant in the field of lyric poetry throughout his life, to become one of the most popular poetic voices of the twentieth century Spanish literature.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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