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| The inauguration, which will take place this afternoon at 8:00 p.m., in the City Hall Exhibition Hall, will be attended by the daughter of the famous author, Elisa Delibes de Castro | The mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, and the Minister of Education and Culture, Esperanza Moreno, inaugurate this afternoon, at 8:00 p.m., in La Glorieta, two exhibitions that pay tribute to Miguel Delibes: 'Five hours with Mario.
50 years of history 'and' The drawings of the way ', both coming from the Miguel Delibes Foundation, and which are inaugurated within the acts of the International Week of Letters ExLibris.The inauguration will be attended by the daughter of the famous author, Elisa Delibes de Castro, as well as the director of the Miguel Delibes Foundation, Fernando Zamácola Feijoo.
The director of ExLibris, Victorio Melgarejo, will also attend.The mayor José Ballesta announced that “it is a recognition of the work of the brilliant Valladolid author in the year in which the centenary of his birth is commemorated, an exhaustive journey through his career through photographs, texts, books and posters, that revolve around his great work, 'Five hours with Mario', which with more than half a century of life, 54 years, continues to be an extraordinary document of Spain in the 70s of the last century ”.The exhibition also addresses a less well-known facet of the writer –one of the most read and remembered in our country-, such as that of an illustrator, with a series of drawings he created to illustrate his work 'El Camino'.More than half a century of 'Five hours with Mario'This exhibition, promoted by the National Library of Spain, together with the Miguel Delibes Foundation, was presented on the occasion of the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of one of the most representative novels of the Valladolid writer, published in 1966.It has numerous documents related to 'Five hours with Mario', from the correspondence between Delibes and its editor, before the novel reached bookstores, to the manuscript of the work, through the personal letters addressed to the writer, to purpose of his new book, of some of the personalities of the world of letters.You will also be able to see copies of a large number of editions of 'Cinco horas con Mario' from different years, collections and formats, and published by different publishing labels.
There are around one hundred critical reviews referring to the novel at the time of its appearance, both in national and international press, and in cultural magazines.A trajectory endowed with a chronological character and careful coherence in the contents, in keeping with the fifty-year history of the novel.The selected material is grouped into four thematic sections: first steps of a different novel; many editions and many translations, readings and re-readings of the novel; books and articles on 'Five hours with Mario'; and the novel on stage: a theatrical work, the origin of a film and the plot of an opera, which range from the first references to the text by its author and publisher, to the numerous and different artistic manifestations originated by the novel.'Five hours with Mario' is one of those novels that mark an important milestone in the artistic-literary representation of a society.
After fifty years, the novel continues to serve future generations as a reference to acquire knowledge about the problems, obsessions, the daily life of the Spaniards of the 70s and the linguistic formulations of their experience.The drawings of 'El Camino'Little known is the fact that in 1941, Miguel Delibes' first job in El Norte de Castilla, the Valladolid newspaper to which he was linked all his life and of which he was director between 1959 and 1963, was that of a cartoonist.
Of the 21 drawings that can be seen in this exhibition, twenty were made by Delibes for a North American edition of 'El camino' that was published in 1960.
A short time later, he would add a new illustration - number six of this exhibition - for the edition from the novel published in London in 1963.The illustrations that the author made for 'El camino' are characterized by their clean and safe line, and by a certain “naive” air that fits perfectly with the content of a novel that stars a child, Daniel, the Owl , who remembers experiences, games and mischief with his childhood friends.The main objective of this exhibition is to show this little-known facet of the Valladolid writer, that of a cartoonist or, more precisely, an “illustrator” of his own work.
Each of the drawings that Miguel Delibes made for 'El camino' is accompanied by the passage from the novel to which it refers.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia / Foto: archivo Murcia.com
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