The course, entitled 'El relato, una mirada literaria a la realidad' (The Story, a Literary Look at Reality), which began on Thursday the 21st, will be held over four sessions: on 28th May, 4th and 11th June, at 6 p.m. The entire course will be available for consultation and follow up on the YouTube channel of the Centre Cultural La Nau and the archive can also be retrieved from the page of the Vice-Principal of Culture of the University.

Cristina García explains how over the course of four sessions, the fascinating relationships between fiction and reality, the threads that connect them, the short circuits that sometimes occur, and the result of these frictions, i.e. the literary story, will be explored. The workshop will be given by Kike Parra and Bàrbara Blasco.

Literature in pandemic times

Since the beginning of the state of alarm, the Universitat de València's Literature Society has been incorporating reading recommendations that form part of the project 'Literature in times of pandemics', where writers, poets, teachers and journalists from the University recommend the reading of novels, essays or books of poetry. Everything can be consulted on the YouTube channel of the Centre Cultural La Nau.

In the videos, the books are presented, fragments are read -some are unpublished texts-, and even anecdotes are told and the houses of writers like Saramago are discovered, through the photographs shown by the participants. More than a dozen literary recommendations can already be consulted, which have had hundreds of visualizations.

Among the participants we can find the director of the Classroom herself, Cristina García Pascual; Senator Javier de Lucas; university professors, such as Ana Aguado or Fernando Flores; the writer Ana Merino, winner of the Nadal Prize and also a writer Anna Lis; the poet Marc Granell and David Trashumante, and the journalists from the Universitat de València Manuel Peris and Magda Ruiz, among others.