Letter Box Starting Tuesday, October 31, the Cervantes Institute preserves the author’s legacy Manuel Longares, This book contains the first published story and two sealed letters from his grandchildren, in which he wanted to “envelop the legacy and spirit of literature.”
In particular, Longares published his first story in ‘Revista de Occidente’, published in 1969.In Aunt Enriqueta’s car‘; The typed original of ‘The Novel of the Corselet’ (1979) and two letters written a few days ago by her grandchildren María and Pablo, which no one has read.
Longares admitted he hopes to reunite his grandchildren in front of Caja de las Letras later this year 2043When they are 100 years old, from the time they were born, they can open the letters and “see how they have evolved since they first thought of writing what they wrote (a story, a poem, or nothing), and these are then collected together as time goes on”.
“This is another way of thinking about writing, surrendering yourself to a random fate that you don’t know how it will come back to you later, like the Nobel Prize or Nobel Prize. beaten”the author noted.
They accompanied Manuel Longares (Madrid, 1943), general secretary of the Cervantes Institute, during the inheritance stored in safe deposit box number 1091. Carmen Noguero, Describing himself as “one of the greatest narrators of contemporary literature in the Spanish language”; writer’s brother Vicente Longaresand the institution’s deputy director of culture, Ernesto Pérez Zúñiga.
He worked as a journalist in publications such as Longares ‘Diario 16’, ‘El Sol’, ‘El Mundo’ and ‘El País’. Manuel Longares studied journalism, law and Spanish philology and wrote novels, short stories and essays.
Won many awards and underlined that National Narrative Criticism With his work titled Romanticism in 2001 and the awards he received, Francisco Umbral And Madrid Booksellers Association Book of the Year for The Four Corners in 2011. received in 2006 Gómez de la Serna Award Narration for the work Our Epic.