This Friday, June 21, it will be presented at the Granada Athenaeum (Martín Bohórquez Street, 30), at 7:30 p.m., the latest book by Miguel A. Moreta-Lara published by the El Desvelo publishing house. It is a small book that brings together one hundred texts, several of them fiction, titled While the afternoon breathes. In this presentation the writer Karima Ziali and the renowned journalist and writer Andrés Cárdenas will accompany and talk with the author. In this work, the author suffers from delusions of smallness. “These hundred micrologists are a bazaar where you stumble upon toys of the spirit hidden between lines that ask for music.”
Miguel A. Moreta-Lara born in Moroccogrew up in Dakhla and studied in Valladolid. He was a professor at institutes of Spain and in universities in Morocco and Hungary. She has worked and lived for many years in Rabat, Budapest and City of Mexico. A contributor to the press, he is the author of, among other books, More love and more suffering: Cuplés songbook (2000), The Gate of the Winds: Contemporary Moroccan Storytellers (2004, with Marta Cerezales and Lorenzo Silva), The image of the Moor and other Moroccan essays (2005 and 2018), count the forty (2019), Wild Dietary (2021), Hell and paradise of the islands (Memories of sea and woman) (2022).
The Mexican writer Rosa Seco Mata has commented on While the afternoon breathes that “it is a book to read and reread. It’s provocative. Fun writing, beautiful, evocative, suburban, cultured microtexts. His pen is that of an observing mind, of a listening ear, of keen vision, of alternative reflection, of sensitive touch. Instructions for the reader: let yourself be carried away by the words, enjoy the other reality, let go of your imagination, all of this, ‘while he breathes the afternoon.’”
/ R.G.
The novelist, poet and painter Antonio Abad also wrote about Moreta-Lara’s work that “I could not help but (since the text deserved it) to approach your series of works with a double reading.” micrologistsa display of literary success and a forceful exercise of knowledge of such diverse cultural, artistic and philosophical fields that lead the reader to enjoy each one of them. While the afternoon breathes”.
For his part, the professor and writer Francisco Silvera dedicated an article to him in the EuropaSur newspaper, where he noted: “I devour While the afternoon breathes by Miguel Á. Moreta-Lara, a hundred varied prose pieces full of findings, surprises, lyricism, humor, accuracy in each word and a distant, sarcastic look, full of Cultures without falling into the nonsense of culture, you know, that deluded bourgeoisie that self-justifies with proper and abstract names (…). Since I read what I want, because I am increasingly convinced that the ability of Art consists of placing the public in front of itself, in this book I find features of our Spain today without Moreta-Lara having intended it. , maybe.”
