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Javier Cercas: The literature is used to change the world " (16/04/2010)

In his speech in Rio de Letras, project included in the Villa del Libro, Cercas has left good impression among his followers, to converse with almost two hundred attendees for over an hour and a half, responding to all sorts of questions about his work .

"Literature is used to change the world, the reader's world view with these words Javier Cercas inquired last night in the office of the writer for those attending the new day in Rio de Letras.

The author of Soldiers of Salamis or the phone, shared with the White citizens who attended the new round of meetings with writers, their reflections on the world of literature.

The conference was planned as a symposium from the beginning, in which participants approached about different aspects of the craft of the creator.

"I'm a writer every time I sit at the computer, when I dive into the creative work," said Cercas, who referred to the importance of his books are generated as a response to a question about situations that did not understand, to which each page was a search for truth that was hidden on those issues that stood out.

Thus arose for example his latest book, Anatomy of a moment when he beheld the images of the then Prime Minister, Adolfo Suárez, undeterred by the attempted coup of 23 February.

Another of the works to which he alluded in its management process was Soldiers of Salamis, which caught him the story of a soldier who spared his enemy during the Civil War.

Apart from the book Soldiers of Salamis, brought to the big screen by David Trueba in 2003, Fences is known for his collaboration with various media, among which the diarioEl country.

Among the many awards she has received Outstanding Achievement Award Bookseller, Salammbo Prize, the Grinzane Cavour, the Critics Award of Chile, the Ciutat de Barcelona and the Medal of Extremadura.

He also serves as a translator, translating mainly contemporary Catalan and grown apart from the novel, the story and the essay.

Rio talks letters continue during April and May.

The following will give a presentation of Murcia Maria Duenas, on April 29 to 20 hours.

This author Cesar Antonio Molina will continue to be presented by the painter of Blanca Pedro Cano on 6 May to 20 hours.

Miguel Aranguren, the 14th, and Cesar Vidal, day 29, complete the program in Rio de Letras in May.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Blanca

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