The writer and professor Joan Morales Alcudia presented this Thursday his book "Saramago por Saramago" (Ediciones El Páramo), in an event that took place in the Saramago Library, in A Casa, in Tías. Later, he held a meeting with readers, where a glass of Lanzarote wine was served.
Joan Morales Alcudia, is a consultant in psychosociology and has a degree in Market Research Techniques, as well as a professor at the Universitat Oberta, in Catalonia. The writer wanted to deposit his book in the José Saramago Library, in the Tías Municipal Library and in the Island Library as a tribute to the Portuguese Nobel Prize winner, whom he met 14 years ago and on whom he has worked ever since.
It was in the summer of 2000, when José Saramago taught a summer course at the Menéndez Pelayo University of Santander. One of his students was Joan Morales, who recorded the different interventions, now transcribed in the volume "Saramago por Saramago".
"It contains José Saramago in his reflections and in the texts that Joan Morales, for greater accuracy, transfers from different books, whether novels, Cuadernos de Lanzarote or Stockholm Speeches", says Pilar del Río in the epilogue.
Joan Morales Alcudia's book thus becomes a tool for understanding the work of the Portuguese author, who lived 18 years of his life in Lanzarote, where he wrote fundamental books such as "Essay on Blindness", "The Duplicated Man", "The Intermittences of Death" or "The Elephant's Journey", among others.