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The University of Murcia has welcomed today one of the days of the Congress of the Chair Vargas Llosa, who dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the Peruvian writer's novel "The Time of the Hero", is held simultaneously this week in the eight Spanish universities that have invested the Nobel for literature awarded an honorary doctorate.
In acts of Murcia, held on the campus of Mercy, have conducted four round tables that has highlighted the importance of the Latin American boom writers and the legacy he has left this generation in the current Spanish culture.
Conferences Spanish novelists Alejandro Gándara and Andres Ibañez have drawn on "The literal and magical" and "Cortázar, rise and fall", respectively, while the Peruvian writer Pedro Novoa has offered the paper "Broken Glass and reconstruction excised from the book of Latin American wholes "and Venezuelan Juan Carlos Méndez chat" History boom impersonal (or notes to read three novels after the boom). "
After the conference, the speakers, accompanied by the organizer of the acts of Murcia, Francisco Florit, professor of Spanish Literature, Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of Murcia, and the teacher in the same institution José María Pozuelo Yvancos have had a meeting with the media in which they discussed the findings and assessments of the day.
The aforementioned have stressed that the cultural phenomenon of the boom - "whose main exponents discovered that there was another way of writing", should have said-visibility and internationalization of the currently enjoyed in Spanish literature.
As common elements of the boom writers, speakers have mentioned the idea of ​​breaking both the social and political order of the day as the stylistic point of view and the plot of the novels.
When asked about the current American storytellers, have said that they have managed to continue and amplify the expressive lines of the writers of the boom, but have warned that the challenge which is to keep the attention aroused by literary phenomenon.
Negative side of the boom, have cited the topical image was of Latin American literature.
Referring to Nobel awarded to Vargas Llosa, have pointed out that this was the first Nobel held on both sides of the Atlantic, it was recognized as its own in Spain and in Latin America.
In this Congress, the Chair has organized in collaboration with Spanish Cultural Action, participating in eight venues 46 writers and critics of Spain and Latin America.
Source: Universidad de Murcia. Fotos: Luis Urbina
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