The writer Manuel Vilas presents his latest novel at the Faculty of Philology, Traducció i Comunicació

Cover of the book 'El luminoso regalo', Manuel Vilas.

The writer Manuel Vilas presented on Monday, 13 May, his latest novel, 'El luminoso regalo' (Abundant) in Juntes Room of the Faculty of Philology, Traducció i Communication at the University of Valencia, at 19 hours.The event is organized by the Deanship of Culture, Gender and Communication of the Faculty.Accompanying the author Begonya Pozo and associate dean Valencian writer Carlos Marzal.

'El luminoso regalo' is a novel about eroticism and evil which has the accumulation of sexual adventures of the protagonist and narrator, Victor Dilan.A build that, in the words of Manuel Vilas, is "satanic". In a sense, so it is a tribute to 'La parte de los crímenes 2666' by Roberto Bolaño. Victor Dilan sex is a sex cumulative, one sex "greedy" that has become, as one character points in capitalism."I think that capitalism has also built our private lives. In other novels tried making political constructions, historical and cultural capitalism. Missing the sex. On the other hand, explicit sex is recent in Western literature. Sex is the great force of life. And I think what we have tamed. Wanted 'desdomesticarlo'.I do not speak of a refined sex, but a real sex, ordinary, common, "says the write

Completely free of the sense of humor of its author, 'El luminoso regalo' is a 180 degree turn in the narrative of Manuel Vilas, author who never wrote a novel to use, ie, a novel approach a middle and an end, and that he had written a novel as evil, for in it everything conspires so that nothing is ever what it seems.

The author
Manuel Vilas, storyteller and poet, has published poems 'Heaven' (DVD Editions, 2000), 'Resurrection' (Princeton University Press, 2005), 'Heat' (Visor, 2008), a collection of his complete poetry with the title of 'Love' (Visor, 2010) and 'Great Vilas' (2012). He is the author of the story book 'Zeta' (DVD, 2002) and the novels 'Magic' (DVD, 2004), 'Spain' (DVD, 2008), which has been reissued by Reading Point (2012), 'Air Our' (Abundant, 2009), which was awarded the Quill Award and translated into French and Italian, and 'Highlander' (Abundant, 2012). 'El luminoso regalo' is his latest novel.

He has won several major poetry prizes awarded in Spain, as the prize 'Jaime Gil de Viedma, "the" Fray Luis de Lion' or 'Melilla'. His novel 'Spain' was considered by the Chimera magazine as one of the ten best novels of the first decade of the century. His latest book of poems, 'Great Vilas', was chosen Book of the Year for Cultural ABC. His work both in prose and verse contained in the most prestigious national anthologies, including the latest Angel appeared highlights L. Prieto de Paula, 'The dwellings of the verb. Spanish poets of democracy '(Pun, 2010) and the anthology of Spanish storytellers Andrés Neuman,' Small resistors, 5 '(Pages Foam, 2011).

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