This afternoon at 19:00 in the Simón Bolívar Hall of Casa América, the Conversatorio España y Portugal, ¿qué futuro después de tantos pasados? and the presentation of the book El país que nunca existió: pasado, presente y futuro de la península ibérica will take place as part of the celebrations in Madrid for Portugal’s National Day. Free admission until full capacity is reached.
After the classic reflections on the Iberian Peninsula presented by Antero de Quental or Oliveira Martins, on the Portuguese side, and by Ángel Ganivet or Ortega y Gasset, on the Spanish side, to which other conceptions could be added, such as those of Joan Maragall, this book presents a vision of Iberian cultures anchored in a long historical backdrop. The characteristic of this cultural space of our Peninsula consists of a deep traumatism, now thousands of years old, an ever-living reality, never overcome, which will later be projected onto Latin America.
The origin and development of this traumatic phenomenon is explained in detail, in historical terms, in the first part of the book. The second part describes how each country, each Iberian culture, experiences this deep trauma: each one does so in a different way, each one taking on its own peculiar traits in what is, in reality, a common drama. In the third part, without proposing far-reaching political changes or border dances, a series of suggestions are made that would allow Portugal and Spain to build that country that never existed and that the two nations are seeking within themselves, without having achieved it so far.
João Mira-Gomes, Ambassador of Portugal; Gabriel Magalhães, Portuguese writer; Enric Juliana, journalist; Margarida Pinto, journalist at Lusa; Ana Romeu, journalist at RTP, and Belén Rodrigo, journalist at SIC Noticias will participate in the discussion.
Pages: 344
Publisher: EDITORIAL ELBA
Binding: Soft cover
ISBN: 9788412649734
RPP: 22,80 euros
