The human side of exile and migration, with their nostalgia and the impossibility of returning home, was one of the main topics this Friday at the beginning Festival of books and roses in Mexico which unites writers and readers in National Autonomous University Mexico (Yunami).
Authors Monica Lavin and Jordi Soller They talked with the novelist Rosa Baltran On the table with the heading ‘Travel Exile’ In which the three told their experience as the heirs of the exiles.
“When my family emigrated to Mexico, I planned to return to Barcelona; When Franco died in 1975, he thought about returning to Barcelona with the idea of staying, but no one understood his Catalan, there were no recommendations that had a city. The floor where my mother was born was no longer this and returned to Mexico as Mexican, ”Soller explained.
For your part, Lavin He remembered that the human appearance has always been a migrant, but we can distinguish forced migration and spontaneous, Although in both fear of the future.
“We migrate, because we are craving for something, and because we are afraid of anything, there is fear of the future where you live, and where you go, and, perhaps, these two opposite forces are those that create energy. In the framework of how terrible it can be, there is also the effect of transporting and enriching the place with the culture of others, ”he said.
In the same way, Rosa Baltran thanked that I had university teachers Spanish emigration, which allowed him to deeply study the Spanish poets and learn the language from philology, from their origin and read the classics
“I loved my teachers, and I love the faculty of philosophy and letters, for me it will always be marked by this exile, although these teachers are no longer there,” he said.
The authors talked about the codes that a foreigner should learn in a new country, Customs and way to say Even when it is the same language.
Among the numerous book presentations on the first day were volumesExile in writing, From Cervantes Uruiguyan Cristina Peri Rossi Award; “In the grief”, Anagram Chronicle, Mexican Daniel Osono; And poems “Silence of a cat”, Alberto Rui Sanchez.
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On the inauguration of the party, Rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico Leonardo Lomeli He remembered that reading is a practice of resistance, which allows you to imagine new universes, cares for bridges and accompanies.
The festival, which will be held before Sunday, will have 400 presentations of books, dialogue tables, conferences, reading poetry in original languages, seminars, oral narration and tribute to writers Mario Vargas Lloza, Ernan Lara Oblast and Hulio Trukhillo, Dead this year.
With information EFE.