Members of Friends and Former Students meet again in their Reading Club this Tuesday, 6 May. This is the monthly colloquium which they do to pool their impressions about the latest work read. On this occasion, they will analyse ‘La pell freda’, novel by the anthropologist Albert Sánchez Piñol which granted him fame in 2002.
As usual since the Club started last October, the group will meet at the Municipal Library ‘Palau de l’Exposició’, at 18:00. In order to participate you just need to be a member of the group of the University of Valencia.
According to the critic Jordi Van Campen, Sánchez Piñol made, with this novel, a spectacular entrance in the field of literature. “It is a cocktail book of adventures, of Roman reflections, of technical manual of geography …, all well mixed with irony”, he adds. And ‘La Pell Freda’ achieved a complete commercial and critical success, being translated into 37 languages.
“This is a book about fear, understood as an experience of emotion in front of incomprehensible forces which the man wants to explain from an insufficient reason. Overwhelmed by panic, the protagonist imagination is presented with inconceivable mixtures of living forms and distorted realities which tense the expectation at every moment”, states the critic.
The protagonist is a fugitive from the Irish independence who, to run away from the society who has disappointed him, accepts an officer work on a remote island in the austral continent. Alone on the island, he will have to face an unknown horror.
On the one hand, he will have a new partner, meeting which the author will use to make philosophical speculations, reconsidering the cultural origins of the human species. On the other hand, he will be in contact with a new aquatic species, in the form of monsters and with whom he will establish a very special relationship.
Albert Sánchez Piñol (Barcelona, 1965) attended courses in anthropology which have influenced, without doubt, his role as a writer. In his novels he examines the motor skills of the human race with an eye of analyst scientist and he bases his literary power in a past which is well-known by the author.
Day: 6 May.
Hour: 18 hours.
Place: Municipal Library ‘Palau de l’Exposició’. Carrer Galícia 1, Valencia.
Book: ‘La Pell Freda’, by Albert Sánchez Piñol.
The next Reading Club of Friends and Former Students will meet on June 3 to discuss the novel ‘El Mar’, by John Banville, winning work of the Man Booker Award 2005. It is a moving meditation about the loss and the redemptive power of the memory.
The participation in the Reading Club is free and exclusive for members of Friends and Former Students of the University of Valencia, who have to send an e-mail to amics@uv.es register.
Last update: 5 de may de 2014 11:58.
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