Baltasar Garzón will present in Lanzarote the biography of José Saramago, written by Fernando Gómez Aguilera, in a tribute to the Portuguese Nobel Prize winner. The event will take place this Thursday, July 1st, at 8:30 p.m. at the César Manrique Foundation in Tahíche.
In addition to the former magistrate of the National Court, the president of the José Saramago Foundation and wife of the writer, Pilar del Río, will be present, who will introduce the work to the public. Also, Pilar Bolaños Suárez, cellist of the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Symphony Orchestra, will perform the Cant dels Ocells de Pau Casals, in memory of the writer.
The biography, which is going to be presented, with the title: "The consistency of dreams", is the only one in Spanish about the life of Saramago. Fernando Gómez Aguilera, its author, pays tribute to the creator of "Lanzarote Notebooks".
Through words and images, both the most decisive moments in the life of the Nobel Prize for Literature and his prolific literary and intellectual activity are covered, accompanied by comments from the writer himself extracted from his statements to the media.
Gómez Aguilera decided to undertake the biography of the Nobel Prize winner "not as a portrait painter", the conventional way of approaching this type of work, "but as a cartographer, making a survey of the most relevant milestones in Saramago's life, his work and his projection as a critical intellectual". José Saramago is "one of the great contemporary universal consciences", said Gómez Aguilera, "he is a provocative and rationalist writer, generous and direct, complex and tireless, as well as a citizen who encourages not to resign, but to be outraged".
About the author
Fernando Gómez Aguilera, poet, essayist and philologist by training, has worked as a professor of Spanish literature. He is currently the director of the César Manrique Foundation, in whose structure he professionally integrated in 1992, and is part of the board of the José Saramago Foundation.
He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Institute for a More Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism (IAU+S) of the Higher Technical School of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and of the Council
Adviser of the Landscape and Theory collection, an interdisciplinary label of studies on the landscape published by Biblioteca Nueva (Madrid). In addition, he belongs to the National Association of Contemporary Art Directors of Spain, made up of twenty directors of the most important museums in our country.
