A night to enjoy the adventure of books, a night to meet the best contemporary authors, a night to not sleep but to dream. October 1st ‘The Night of the Books’ arrives.
A night that will start before the sun goes down, with many activities spread out throughout the Madrid geography. Literary dialogues, concerts, dramatized readings … etc, all for all lovers of literature, young and old, with the participation of institutions, bookstores, libraries … etc and about 600 authors.
The night of the most ‘avant-garde’ Books arrives on October 1 in Madrid
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This year the ‘Night of the Books’ pays tribute to the ‘ultraist’ writers, those who a hundred years ago founded the magazine “Ultra” and turned Madrid into the capital of the avant-garde: Luis Buñuel, Gerardo Diego, Rosa Chacel, González-Ruano and Jorge Luis Borges.
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There are many stages and more than 400 activities. We review the most interesting.
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Tickets can be booked at nighttime books.eventbrite.es or on the website of each center.
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Scenarios
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There are activities throughout the Community of Madrid and the districts. And you cannot miss the most emblematic places of the capital: The Royal Post Office, the Centro Centro, the National Library, the Instituto Cervantes or the Real Casa de Postas, where activities for children in the afternoon and interactive theater at night.
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AND two ‘urban routes’, one of them through a selection of galleries in Madrid and the other a historical and literary journey from the early 1940s to the late 1960s starting from the centenary of Carmen Laforet
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Digital conversations
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The night of books will also be present in the online world with digital meetings in which great Latin American figures participate.
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The meetings begin on Tuesday, September 28 with a meeting between Karina Sainz Borgo y Jorge Volpi (7:30 p.m.) On Wednesday 29 it will be the turn of Piedad Bonnett and Gioconda Belli (19:00) and Thursday 30 of Mariana Enriquez and Alejandro Zamba (19: 00h)
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Royal Post Office
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The activities begin at 18:00 with ‘an invitation to the book’ two names of women: Irene Vallejo and Luz Casal, that have a lot to tell about current literature.
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At 7:30 p.m. we will get to know the writer better John Banville (Prince of Asturias 2004 and author of “The book of evidence” or “the sea”) interviewed by Berna González, recent Dashiel Hammett award for crime novels
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A little later, at 9:00 p.m. the writer Lorenzo Silva and General Félix San Roldán, who was Chief of the Defense Staff, debate on ‘Literature vs. State forces? “
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At 10:30 p.m. the moment of humor will come with Joaquín Reyes and Ernesto Sevilla that emulate those ultraist writers who led Madrid to a decade of splendor
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Royal Post House
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The Plaza de Pontejos is another of the fundamental stages of the Night of the Books. A place where children will enjoy a lot with activities such as ‘The blank sheet’, a collaborative story created by children (5:00 p.m.) or a poetic improvisation for them at 6:30 p.m.
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At 8:00 p.m. Interactive theater to celebrate the centenary of Patricia Highsmith with a representation of ‘Strangers on a train’ in which viewers will also be protagonists
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Count of Barajas Square
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This stage will host some samples of the most innovative of current literature and also music. The protagonists will be: at 19:00 Berta García Faet, Constantino Molina and Ángela Segovia and at 20:30 Soleá Morente and Fernando Vacas.
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Scenes of Modern Madrid
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This cycle takes place in various settings; on the National Library they will be with Félix de Azúa and Jon Juaristi with ‘Ruinas de la vanguardia’; at the Casa de América, ‘The literary genres’ in suspicion with Alan Pauls and Patricio Pron (7:00 p.m.).
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On Center Center ‘The environments of Madrid’ with Luis Antonio de Villena and Joaquín García (7:00 pm); at Circle of Fine Arts (Alcalá, 42) ‘Madrid has not died’ with Elvira Lindo, Ana Rossetti and Rosario Villajos (7:30 p.m.)
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At Cervantes Institute, (Alcalá, 49) ‘And where is the new? with Pilar Adón, Marta Sanz and Raquel Taranilla (7:00 p.m.); at Reina Sofia Museum, a performance by Eduardo Scala, INSTANTeTERNO (6pm); at Prado Museum, will be Antonio Muñoz Molina (18:00 h.); the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum welcomes Juan Manuel Bonet and Juana de Aizpuru, with ‘Madrid, avant-garde city; and in the Royal Spanish Academy the meeting between Álvaro Pombo and Andrés Trapiello will take place with ‘Ways to narrate Madrid’.
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David Safier, Eslava Galán, Javier Sierra, Carmen Posadas
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At 6:30 p.m. in Ramírez de Prado street, 3, the Joaquín Leguina Regional Library welcomes David Safier the funny author of ‘Damn karma’ who returns with ‘Miss Merkel. The case of the retired chancellor ‘
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At Cultural Center of the Villa There will be Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón and Jesús Ruiz Mantilla, who pay tribute to Fernando Fernán Gómez at 18:00. And in Caixaforum at 7:30 p.m. Irina Kouberskaya and José Manuel Lucía Megías. Espacio Fundación -Telefónica brings’ The Adventures of Genitalia and Normative with Eloy Fernández Porta and Eloi ElBonNoi
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At National Archaeological Museum They will be together two great acquaintances of contemporary Spanish literature. Juan Eslava Galan and Javier Sierra (6.30pm). And in the Ra, Carmen Posadas, at 6:00 p.m.
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