As I said recently Pérez Reverte: “The best thing to read books before facing life is that later, when life comes, everything sounds like something to you“
In this Concord Fair, full of news in the world of the Guadalajareño book, we will see some things that will speak. And that they will surely continue to serve us to guide us in the walk of life. The book, which is the best friend because it never gets angry, always shut up and leaves free, is the company that everyone encourages along the way.
In this fair that in a few days arrives at Concordia, I know that things (dreams, numbers, future) of the mill will appear Ricardo Herranzthe safe verses of Carmen Child y Mariano Arranzresearch on the Guadalajara bridge of Ángel Mejíaand the renovated offerton of greedy stories of the notary Javier Serrano. Ah, and that endearing story, which is among the young people, who has written Merche Pacheco With his grandmother’s memories when war.
Official poster of the Guadalajara Book Fair in 2025.
I also know that comics and novels, children’s stories and the poems fulfilled will emerge on the shelves and counters: all ways to entertain and encourage time to pass without feeling. But they will be (for me, the most important) the books that report, which tell true stories, and give us ideas of where to travel, what to look at, and with what eyes do it. And so we are going to see the newly left study on the parish church of Riba de Saelices, dedicated to Santa María Magdalena, and that for those who have read it we have seemed a model, informative and valuative work. Today, this afternoon, this book is presented at the “El Oven” Cultural Center; Act in which known people will participate and that are expected with expectation there, in the town. But there will be the opportunity to talk about him later.
Other things appear in this fair. For example, one thing entitled “Tajo below”And that I have dared to sign, after spending a few months preparing it and writing it. A book is, because of the form, the color covers, the flaps, the pages that they wave, the letrin it offers, the maps… but I think it is something else. It is a new vision of the information. Because talking about the pit (a geographical accident that nourishes with its waters the swamps and it serves as drinks and energy can be done) varied angles. But give it as a uniform set of history and landscape, of people and geographies, is already more complex.
I will present it, personally, next Friday, May 9, in the central tent of the fair, at one in the afternoon, and I will tell my intentions. Although you will have to pass the pages, and then read them, one after another, to know what it is about. As an advance, to say that it is a work that looks at the river as it had never been looked at, in front and on the sides. Because if water is essential, even more importance has what appears on the banks, constituting a world (the Nile, for example, is the best sample of this concept, such as an aqueous reptile that creates life and culture on its banks in the middle of a unleashed desert) I say, a world curdled with buildings, landscapes, memories and breaths. With many images, some curious and unpublished, I will baptize this book, which I feel very happy to have given birth.
But many other things will appear. For example, three volumes of the various who must constitute a great work on a minimum people. It’s nice to see that these companies still want to be born [culturales] among us. Is Lorenzo Hernández Hernándeza mill that as many had to go to Barcelona to work and live, and now he has returned to his town, to carve happiness with his walks and his eyes. From them a work is born that will have 5 volumes, and from which the first three are placed at the Fair. It is titled “Things and cases of the people of Adobes”and they come to be the rejection of knowledge and emotions that the author is produced every day from home and find sources, streets, friends and sabinares, together with balances. It is in the “capital letters” collection of Aache, and in the last of the volumes it contributes an issue that has left me surprised, because it goes directly to the essence of anthropology and customs of the manor of Molina. Puts the memory of the “Paider”From his people, with a drawing in drawing of the doors of those buildings, in which people left the people of them through their names, nicknames, drawings, dates. We know the subject, as you can see until today, it has been working since the 18 beating in his distant confine of sheep, of peeled hills and Ábregos winds.
There are many other things that come to concord these next few days. For example, the study that the Azudense professor Juan Antonio García Sánchez It makes the “History of Azuqueca during the Civil War”And that specifies in a title, with black cover and portrait of aviators: “Campo X” It turns out to be a story of the minimum, but capital, in the course of that war to which many try to forget, but that Machacona insists to return, with new data. Here Professor García Sánchez tells what happened in a field to the right bank of the Henares, between 1936 and 1939. Nothing less than the airfield where they went out to fight through the air, a series of Russian pilots on their modern Poikarpov devices (the “chatoes” that tied to the most terne) in those days of blind passion. A book that has reached many, but is still available to amaze many more.
And for talking about more literary issues, remembering how Friday 9, but at 8:30 in the afternoon, it will be the writer Ángel Taravillo Alonso who will introduce us his new novel “I, the boss “that has been a concern, a curiosity (the thriller is what they have, that you do not rest until they end) and a final astonishment when reading the story of an individual (of a family, actually) that nakes a part of Spanish society during the postwar years. It is also a passionate story, strong and ruthless, but that leaves the reader with the bitter taste of what is wrong, even if he is painted in colors.
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