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Addresses the world of eight universal literature key writers.
Fernando Savater presents his latest work Lions live here
May 13, 2016Lions live here is the tribute of a reader to eight writers, "a multiple declaration of love for literature, the world and the books that accompany us and become small portable havens for each of us”.
In this way, professor and writer Fernando Savater defined his recent book presented in the Patio central Octavio Paz de la Biblioteca de México, where writers Elena Poniatowska and Juan Villoro participated, and Gabriela Warkentin, director of W Radio moderated the event.
Lions live here , offers a journey through the life, work, emblematic places and unpublished stories of eight key writers of world literature: William Shakespeare, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Edgar Allan Poe, Giacomo Leopardi, Agatha Christie, Alfonso Reyes, Gustave Flaubert and Stefan Zweig.
These texts are accompanied by a series of graphic elements, "cartoon strips that introduce each of the writers, maps to locate where they moved and lived each one and a series of photographs that portray Fernando Savater and Sara Torres, and highlighted places to understand the lives of these characters”, Gabriela Warkentin said.
According to Fernando Savater, this book he wrote with his wife Sara Torres is a work that will seek to move the reader's heart, so it can be seen as a journey to help people and a key to open doors in order to know these authors ‘ books.
"With this work we tried to please readers who already knew these writers and they could have fun seeing where they had lived, to skip the window through which they looked into the world, to know where they had written and what the similarities were between their real landscape and that of their books.
"But also whet the appetite of those readers who do not know them yet, especially young people. This book is an invitation to approach these authors in their daily lives as they will see they are not angels, but human beings like us sometimes full of defects and vices. "
Elena Poniatowska said that Lions live here is an endearing book that get the reader into the life and work of each of these eight characters, but also how to get to them, what to eat on the way and what time to visit them. She added that it is a text that will arouse the reader's desire to go into these lions cage to know everything of such extraordinary beasts.
"Fernando Savater becomes a necessary author for our youth. We love him and we like to see him red by the sun. He is a man who believes that happiness is an inalienable right, we like he never complains about pollution and he eats tacos with chili.
"He is a several generations author. A good writer and a good person. He is a sarcastic, witty, cheerful and agitator writer who has the wisdom to laugh at himself. His writings reflect that red irony that draws us all. "
Meanwhile, Juan Villoro stressed that Lions live here is a text that opens a special genre: the travel book of books, where not only a tour of the writers is made, their favorite places, the houses where they lived, the places where they studied or moved, but also the works each one wrote.
He added that it is an extraordinary and evocative portrait of very different authors. A literary exercise that emphasizes something not always addressed when talking about the trajectory of writers: the relationship with their audience, how they tried to live or survive, the lawsuits they had to impose their work, the misunderstandings and circumstances of the time, tragic sometimes, around them.
"Fernando Savater is not only the author of great books, but an exemplary life. This book deals with one of the most controversial authors in the history of literature, Gustave Flaubert and invites us to understand from the discrepancy between his hopes and the judgment of the time, the devotion to his work and the repudiation of criticism.
Mexico,Distrito Federal
