Case Angeles makes a call to the novel, which thinks that nothing is dead "but rather a process of reuniting or re-invention", the conference offered last night at the Fundación Pedro Cano.
The winner of the Premio Planeta 2009 becomes the fifth invited to journey through the literature that began in early March, the town of White River Writers cycle of Letters.
Alicia Jiménez-Bartlett, winner of Nadal, will take over on Thursday, 31, to close this meeting of great writers.
Pedro Cano Foundation conference last night hosted by journalist and writer Angeles Caso.
Following in the footsteps of Martha Robles, Carmen Posadas, Ana Maria Matute and Mario Conde, the 2009 Metro Award winner came to White in order to claim a literary genre that for many is dead or in decline but, for the author of Against the wind, still very much alive.
'Viva la novel! "
was the title that gave birth to a conference refilled River flow lyrics joy of reading.
Presented by the artist and writer of opinion pieces, Enrique Nieto, Case addressed issues surrounding the novel.
The writer back in time and took the audience a few decades ago, where older children told stories and they in turn retold the story among themselves.
"Imagine that we are in 2011 and that girl who hear a story is my daughter and I am your interlocutor. I think that this might happen someday," the author spoke of a long silence.
The journalist named in his lecture to numerous authors who have made the novel its ultimate literary style as Valle-Inclan, Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust.
For Case "while we feel the need to live in society, while there is something to fight, while there are dreams, there is the novel" she concluded in her determination to claim the novel as a genre that is not finished "but is over a period of reinvention. "
After his speech, the debate was opened to the public where they launched several questions to the author who made reference to his defense of women, where reference was made to Virginia Woolf's case who said the author of The Hours and To the Lighthouse was first woman claimed the women's writing from thinking like women.
The winner and also won a Metro 2009, Llanes Travel Award this year, said that all writers "have to reinvent ourselves, we have to rebuild it are new times, new technologies that we know how to exploit" he said after a question to where was the novel and the writer's role.
The cycle of writers, Rio de Letras, will end next Thursday, March 31, with the conference 'Fiction and Reality When and how? "
the Fundación Pedro Cano, to 20.30.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Blanca