The Book Fair in Seville will host the presentation of the biography 'Jose Saramago. The consistency of Dreams'.
In the next weeks, the work will be presented on the island, at the headquarters of the MCF, which has just published a comprehensive chronological biography on the Nobel prize for literature, written by Fernando Gomez Aguilera, head of the institution.
The presentation ceremony in Seville will attend, besides the author, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Territorial Policy,, cartoon faces, Manuel Chaves, responsible for introducing the work to the public, the Foundation reported in a statement.
Throughout the more than three hundred pages of the publication and including two hundred images, we travel so much more decisive moments in the life of Nobel Prize for Literature Portuguese as his literary, intellectual and civil intervention, accompanied by comments writer himself extracted from their statements to the media, which includes reflections of the author of Blindness on life circumstances, on the literary work itself and its public commitment.
One of the great writers of the twentieth century
"Jose Saramago. The consistency of Dreams "picks up the research work of Gomez Aguilera performed for four years, initially attached to the homonymous exhibition in 2007 was the FCM, and subsequently completed in 2008 and 2009.
This is a book practical and easy to read that provides rich and systematized information "about the intense life of one of the great writers of the twentieth century, Nobel Prize in Literature 1998. In the next weeks, the work will be presented in Lanzarote, at the headquarters of the MCF.
Fernando Gomez Aguilera, poet, essayist, and philologist by training, has worked as a professor of Spanish literature. Today, is director of the Fundacion Cesar Manrique (Lanzarote), whose structure was integrated professionally in 1992 and is part of the patronage of the Fundacion Jose Saramago.
Member of Scientific Committee of the Institute for Architecture and a more sustainable urban (IAU + S) of the Technical College of Architecture at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, and the Advisory Council of the Landscape collection and Theory, a label interdisciplinary studies on the landscape edited by Biblioteca Nueva (Madrid).
It belongs to the National Association of Contemporary Art in Spain, consisting of a dozen directors of the most outstanding museums of our country.
Six books of poetry
He has edited six books of poetry, the last of which, The Promised Land, just published in Segovia, and has written critical articles about the work of many artists (Philip Guston, Cesar Manrique, Martin Chirino, Alberto Corazon, Stipo Pranyko, Jaume Plensa, Siah Armajani, Olafur Eliasson, Susana Solano). It has also been busy curating exhibitions, primarily of contemporary art.
In 2007, I prepare a sample of large format dedicated to the life and literary career of Saramago, launched at the headquarters of the , drawing portrait,Fundacion Cesar Manrique, and displaced, subsequently, to Lisbon and S * o Paulo. Aware of the Portuguese writer's work has produced several books and has published his essays and literary criticism on the fiction of Nobel Prize for Literature 1998.
Gomez Aguilera has participated in debates and round tables and has lectured widely on art, literature on public space and cultural centers, among others,the Residencia de Estudiantes, Universidad Internacional Menendez Pelayo, Instituto Cervantes, ARCO, and the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea.
In addition to the Centro Cultural de la Villa de Madrid, Atlantic Center of Modern Art, College of Architects of Tenerife, Universidad de Murcia, Basque Country University and College of Architects of Madrid.