The Aula de Narratives of the University of Valencia begins its program this year with a literary gathering on the latest novel by the Valencian writer and journalist Paco Cerdà (Genoese, 1985): Gifts(Alfaguara, 2024), which will take place on Tuesday 17 of September in the Great Hall of the Cultural Center of the Ship, to them 19 hours. They will participate, in addition to the author, Purification Mask, writer and professor of Theory of Literature, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies of the UV, and professor Cristina García Pascual, responsible for the UV Narratives Classroom.
The Cultural Center of the Nau becomes the stage chosen for the official presentation in Valencia of one of the most anticipated works of the season. Gifts, through eleven key days of 1939, narrates the rise of fascist megalomania in Spain and contrasts this with the small lives of those who dreamed and defended their ideals paying a high price with repression. With this book Cerdà consolidates himself as one of the great writers of his generation in the field of non-fiction and enters the prestigious Alfaguara catalog. The work addresses one of the most significant episodes in the contemporary history of Spain that combines journalistic rigor with high-level literary prose. As the writer and journalist Elvira Lindo points out: “With the pulse of a chronicler, the precision of a researcher and the skill of a novelist, Paco Cerdá undertakes an ambitious company: narrate the arrival of the Second Republic from the perspective of both those who longed for it and those who feared it. The result is a fast-paced and passionate narrative.”
Programming of the Narratives Classroom 2024
After the talk with Paco Cerda, the programming of the UV Narratives Classroom intensifies in October with different activities at the Nau Cultural Center. On Wednesday 3, the writer Elvira Lindo will be the protagonist of the talk Univers Beautiful. Twenty-five years of a novelist, in which he will review his literary career fromThe other neighborhood fins a In the den of the wolf.
He 22 of October, Max Huerta will accompany the writer and journalist Juanjo Braulio to talk about his novel In the name of Borgia, a work of historical intrigue about the extraordinary life and cruel end of Cèsar Borgia.
He 24 of October, Marti Dominguez, director of the magazine Method, join forces with Maxime-Henri Rousseau, director of the French Institute of Valencia, and to Adela Cortijo, director of the University Culture Service, in the talk show Voltaire remains valid in the age of artificial intelligence?
Finally, he 30 of October, the philosopher tastes Javier Goma and the journalist Pedro Vallin they will close the month with the meeting Penultimate truths, like the book with which these two friends from different professions reflect on the state of the world today.
He 13 of November, in the Great Hall, in a conference with the title Kafka and the shadows that take over Europe, the professor of philosophy of law Javier de Lucas will analyze and review some of our current issues through the work of the brilliant Czech writer.
He 26 of November, Sabina Blanca will present his family novel Zeal, within the framework of the cycle of creative gifts of the UV.
Finally, he 12 of December, Raul Quinto, winner of the National Critics Award, will close the programming of the Narrative Classroom of 2024 with the presentation of the historical novel Shadow King's Hammer, a critically acclaimed poetic and literary exploration.
