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The winner of the National Prize for Fiction, José María Merino, started the first of the 6 conferences Pedro Cano Foundation will host the occasion of the celebration, until 7 May, the fifth edition of the literary cycle blanqueño River Lyrics.
A hundred followers of the writer received a lecture about fiction and the process of literary creation
"Lover of reading and writing excited."
This was presented in the River Lyrics José María Merino, winner of the National Prize for Fiction which opened last night at the Pedro Cano Foundation, a new edition of blanqueño literary cycle.
Considered one of the best storytellers of Spanish literature, Merino gave a lecture on the process of literary creation with fiction as a tool for understanding reality, just as he did in his inaugural speech to the Royal Spanish Academy titled ' Fiction of truth.
For coruñés writer, fiction is the first form of knowledge created by the human species.
"We need to imagine stories to understand reality," said the academic as he spoke of his latest novel 'River Out of Eden', which talks about the need and power of hope, and that led him to win the National Award for Fiction.
About this work, academia recognizes to be his most realistic novel.
In it, the author adopts a second self-reflective voice to give life to a family microcosm, which revolves around a child with disabilities and their appearance caused crisis in family life.
Merino spoke, too, about the difference between the story and the novel, stating that "a story is something that starts early and ends soon," referring to the writer offers a full reading unit, like a poem, hence Merino.
Poetry taught him to write narrative, forced him to refine its accuracy, find the images harder to work suggestion.
Thus, their stories which was inherited as a narrative poet, and his novels of the stories.
The difference between a novel and a short story is that "the first is an act of faith, the second lighting" so clear in his inaugural address to the Academy, and so blanqueño reflected in the cycle where he confessed to be sure "If you do not see the story, you can not get to write it. novel can not see it at all and yet reach culminarla".
The author of 'The Gap' goodbye blanqueño public revealing of his two employers.
For one, its pattern Miguel de Cervantes, who taught him that despite the circumstances have to keep writing, and secondly its patron, Scheherazade, who taught him that to live is to keep telling stories.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Blanca
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