ESSAY ON THE COLOR WHITE (1ª parte)

10/06/2022

"I think we are all blind. We are blind who can see, but they don't look." The one we have just reproduced is one of the most representative phrases of the author José Saramago and the one that best shows the white of his works. As this month the Portuguese narrator will be the protagonist in the Can Ventosa Library, We are going to dedicate two articles to him in which we will bring our readers closer to both his figure and his work. This first part will summarize his books Essay on blindness and Essay on lucidity, that take the form of allegories that explain the personal... Read More

EVISSA PRIZES OF THE AMIC-FICTION COMPETITION

08/06/2022

Alexia Alfallo Alvarez de Toledo, of the Master's College of Ibiza, has been the winner of the award for the best story of Ibiza in the fourteenth edition of the AMIC-Ficcions. Participation of Fictions 2022 This latest edition of the literary contest for young people “AMIC-Ficcions, “The adventure of creating stories” closed with a record participation. until 4493 students from among 14 y 18 years and 184 different educational centers participated with their stories. specific, there has been 463 participants from the Balearic Islands, 204 of which are from Eivissa, a not inconsiderable figure. In total they presented.... Read More

THE BROKEN LIGHT THEATER, IN POLLENCIA

03/06/2022

El sábado 4 the play “Broken Light” arrives in Pollença in June. It is a production of Iguana Teatre, company that produces and distributes shows from 1985. The work is based on the book “Republican Women. Memory of the Civil War in Mallorca ”, by the writer Margalida Capellà. Plot "Llum trencada" recovers the stories of some of the women who suffered terrible repression, humiliation and revenge after the coup of the 18 de julio de 1936 because of his political ideas and his ideology. this crackdown, as hard as the one that the male members could suffer... Read More

JOHN MAYORGA, PRINCESS OF ASTURIAS OF LETTERS AWARD

03/06/2022

The Princess of Asturias Foundation announced last 1 June that the winner of the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature 2022 is the playwright Juan Mayorga. According to the jury led by the president of the RAE, Santiago Munoz, the writer from Madrid has been chosen "for the enormous quality, critical depth and intellectual commitment of his work: action, emotion, poetry and thought.” to their 57 years, Mayorga has behind him more than 50 plays that have made him become the Spanish author with the greatest international projection. Therefore, the playwright has been obtaining a multitude of... Read More

JOSE SARAMAGO, ANTONI MARIA ALCOVER I SUREDA

01/06/2022

On the occasion of the centenary of his birth, The Can Ventosa Library pays homage this June to José Saramago, writer month. Biography and literary career The renowned writer José Saramago was born into a rural Portuguese family on 16 de noviembre de 1922, although he emigrates to the capital, Lisboa, en 1934. Then, twelve years old, dropped out of school and did vocational training in mechanics. It is remarkable that he completed his education completely self-taught. his first work, the widow (land of sin), was published in 1947, when he was still working as a Social Security official. No... Read More

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