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Las ciudades y los viajes a través de las muescas que deja el pasado y su recuerdo son escenarios que sitúa Mathias Enard en el centro de sus obras como Melancolía de los confines: Norte, en el que mezcla memoir, libro de viaje y ensayo literario. En toda su obra se deslizan los paisajes físicos, pero también los morales, que van creando fronteras geográficas, humanas y literarias. Su última obra, la primera parte de un cuarteto sobre los puntos cardinales, sirve de vehículo para conversar con Helena de Bertodano, periodista especializada en entrevistas y perfiles de famosos. Presenta el evento Zélie Perpignaa, experta en mediación cultural y agregada para el Libro, el Debate de Ideas y las Mediatecas en el Institut Français de España.

Al finalizar el evento, el autor firmará ejemplares de sus libros

Evento en español

Julian Barnes (United Kingdom) has suggested that Departure(s), published earlier this year, will be his final book. With this novel about love, happiness and farewells, he brings a long literary career into focus, one that established him as a central figure in contemporary English fiction with works such as Flaubert’s Parrot and The Sense of an Ending. Recently awarded the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature, he is a writer with a distinctly European outlook, whose work moves between fiction and reality, irony and melancholy, and a sustained attention to how stories are constructed, remembered, and revised. One of the most important writers of contemporary fiction will be in conversation with Oleksandr Mykhed.

Mathias Énard (France) has built his work around the circulation of people, languages, and wars across overlapping historical and geographical spaces. In Zone, a single train journey becomes an inventory of modern violence from the Mediterranean to the Middle East, while Compass —winner of the Prix Goncourt— traces centuries of cultural exchange between Europe and the East through music, literature, and travel. His most recent novel, The Deserters, returns to war through two separated timelines, following figures who step away from systems of violence and the structures that sustain them.