six items, Rafael Azuar Carmen, for whom many other experts (Elche, 1921 – Alicante, 2002) created the special file of the figure. novelist, poet and essayist Published in the 24th issue. Vinalopó Magazine presented at the University Venue of Alicante Town on Wednesday, 28th. one hundred and three pages Coordinated by José Ferrándiz Lozano, a project that sprouted with the celebration of the centennial of his birth in 2021 aims to update and value his literature.
Editor of the periodical Vinalopó Center for Local Studies (CEL) and although it is miscellaneous, it always contains a main topic to which it dedicates its file. In this case, despite having lived most of his life, the author Azuar Part of his life in Alicante Due to his teaching profession, he considers himself closely connected to the Vinalopó regions, as his father was also a teacher and traveled to these places, being born in Elche and having his childhood in Monóvar. He also turned Salinas into the town of the hero of his main work. numbness1967 Café Gijón Award winner.
He was also associated with Mutxamel as a teenager and with La Vilella Alta (Tarragona), a municipality where he taught for five years, a municipality that inspired his first two novels. Teresa Ferrer And busheswith whom Planet Award finalist.
From philology to history
Ferrándiz Lozano preferred to approach Rafael Azuar’s literature from different angles, so the intervening authors reviewed the author’s work. from the fields of philology, sociology, art and history.
Who was the broadcast coordinator? curator of Rafael Azuar’s Centennial two years ago Juan Gil-Albert, who manages the inclusion of the archive and personal library at the Alicante Cultural Institute with his family, said shortly before he finished his directorship of this organization in 2019, “This multidisciplinary structure makes a lot of sense because rand, in addition to being very literary due to his elaborate style, he interprets a work that today provides us with many elements of its time.both in his novels that left a very valid social information legacy from the rural world of the fifties and sixties of the last century, and in his poems based on a personal sensitivity and aesthetics that the poet defended outside of the dominant currents”.
“Also—he adds—a cataloging his published books, He also collects his connections with the art world, which is reflected in the artists whose books he asks for covers, and underlines Miguel Hernández’s assertion in the seventies, both in the late Franco regime and in the Transition period.” Moreover, the work that closes the block is relatively more important. The persecution of her family immediately after the war”.
article list
The articles in the dossier are “Social and rural realism in the novels of Rafael Azuar” by José Ferrándiz Lozano; “Rafael Azuar Carmen and poetry. Notes on the Centennial Anniversary”, by Manuel Valero Gómez; “All the books by Rafael Azuar: an annotated bibliography”, by Cristina Llorens Estarelles; “Rafael Azuar and Miguel Hernández: two jewelers of the world” by Aitor Larrabide; “Rural society and women through the eyes of Rafael Azuar Carmen. A Sociological Approach”. Diana Jareño, Marián Abellán and Zeus Sergio Domínguez Rubiothe team from the Valencian Sociological Association; Porches for art and word. Covers of “Rafael Azuar” and “Los Azuar, maestros” by Juana María Balsalobre. carlos salinas.
presentation in Alicante
Issue of Revista del Vinalopó presented Wednesday, June 28 At 19:30 at Ciudad de Alciante Headquarters at 40 San Fernando Street (entrance from Velarde Street). will interfere Francisco J. Palomares, chairman of CEL Vinalopó; Jose Ferrandiz Lozano coordinator of the journal’s Azuar file, And Pilar Azuar Ruizauthor’s daughter and co-chairman Azuar 2021 Centenary Commission. Access to the event is free. CEL Vinalopó is planning the next round of presentations to begin in September.