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The act of presenting the novelEl otro lado, by Juan Serrano, will take place on Wednesday, April 18, at 8:00 pm, at the Salvador García Aguilar Library (at Avenida del Chorrico, n ° 44), as part of the Spring program of Book 2018 of Molina de Segura, organized by the Department of Culture of the Molinense City Council.
Speakers, along with the author, writers José María López Conesa and Paco López Mengual.
Juan Serrano (Yecla, 1943) studied Philosophy and Theology.
In 1999 he won the First Prize with Lugarde, the robbery of the century in the Contest of Tales called by the City of Murcia.
He was a teacher of Early Childhood Education and Speech Pathologist.
Author of the book This shadow is not mine, edited by Lecturas Hispánicas (2013), currently resides in Molina de Segura.
It has been published in the anthology 44 worlds at odd hours (Editorial Adeshoras), as well as in the anthologies Paris and New York, by MAR Editor.
He is a member of Molínea (Colectivo de potas y cuentistas de Molina de Segura).
He collaborates in Acantilados de Papel, a literary creation magazine and manages the literature blog blao-blao.blogspot.com.
On the other side, Eusebio, a clerk in a canning factory, accompanies his mother-in-law, Carmen, who is terminally ill during her summer vacation.
Advised by Josema, an enthusiastic bookseller of the poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, Eusebio writes everything that Carmen is telling him.
According to what Josema says, what she writes will be for her mother-in-law "like that little breath that encourages the flame of the patient's life".
And so, the novel will pass between the resistant skepticism of Eusebio and the easy credulity of Josema.
The most trivial issues of Carmen's life are for the author of El otro lado pretext and argument of the great question of life: death, the meaning of existence, immortality, the hereafter ... Throughout the book, the protagonist will do nothing but turn into question the incipit of Lord Byron with which begins the story of the other side: "Is there pleasure in the woods without paths, / ecstasy on the lonely shore?".
Everyone's question, the usual question.
That question that only death will be able to answer.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura
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