The Cervantes Institute presents the third meeting of the cycle dedicated to the republican politician and intellectual who will delve into Manuel Azaña’s relationship with books and his important literary contribution.
Cervantes Institute, Madrid
This colloquium is held on February 3, at 19:00 hours, within the Café Azaña cycle. The writers José María Ridao and José Manuel Lucía Megías will participate in the talk, who will talk about Azaña and the books that marked his life as an author. The artistic action will be in charge of the sculptor and plastic artist Pilar V. de Foronda.
Azaña was an important writer and journalist, he collaborated in the newspapers The Impartial and El Sol and directed the magazines La Pena and Spain between 1920 and 1924. He was National Prize for Literature in 1926, for his work Life of Juan Valera. He was the author of novels such as The garden of the friars (1927) and the unfinished Fresdeval. He was also an important translator and great essayist, his production in this field is reflected in the volumes Plumas y palabras (1930) and The Invention of Quixote and Other Trials (1934). His work The evening in Benicarló (1939), composed of a series of dialogues on the war in Spain, can be considered as the most important reflection on the 1930s in our country. Likewise, he wrote some memoirs that constitute an exciting document about the Second Spanish Republic.
The Café Azaña cycle is part of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the death of Azaña in exile and is organized by the Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, in collaboration with Acción Cultural Española.
This activity is face-to-face and has a limited capacity and a reserve of space.
The event will be streamed through the direct channel of the Cervantes Institute and on the Youtube Channel.