The Fundación Casa de México presents this evening at 19.30 p.m. the book El libro vacío. Los años falsos de Josefina Vincens. In 1958, a writer who was different from all the others appeared on the Mexican literary scene: Josefina Vicens.
And she did so with El libro vacío a masterpiece justly compared to Mario Levrero’s The Luminous Novel, which is not only a narrative about the metaphysics of writing, but also about the desires and limitations of an ordinary man.
After almost a quarter of a century of silence, Vicens published Los años falsos (The False Years) in 1982, a hypnotic text that tells how a man is formed by the dogmas, customs and recurrences in the nucleus of a family and its social environment. This novel closed an intriguing diptych, a work sustained by restraint and introspection that has earned its author a place of pre-eminence in 20th century Spanish-language literature.
This volume brings together the only two novels by Vicens, works that were enough for the author to achieve immortality and for her work to be confirmed as one of the secret jewels of Mexican narrative.
María Limón (Seville, 2000), who holds a degree in Hispanic Philology from the University of Seville and a Master’s degree in Latin American Literature from the Complutense University of Madrid, and Daniela Tarazona (Mexico City, 1975), who studied for a doctorate at the University of Salamanca and is currently studying theatre in Madrid, will speak about this writer.
Pages: 308
Publisher: TRANSITO
Binding: Hard cover
ISBN: 9788412440171
RPP: 21,75 euros
