This evening at 7pm, Casa Asia presents a meeting with the Chinese writer Chen Chuncheng at the Iván de Vargas Municipal Public Library of Madrid (Calle San Justo, 7). Free entrance until full capacity is reached. Consecutive Chinese-Spanish translation.
This event is in collaboration with the Instituto Confucio de Madrid, Biblioteca Iván de Vargas de Madrid, Bibliotecas Municipales de Madrid, Fundació Institut Confuci de Barcelona and Editorial Aristas Martínez.
With a brilliant ability to reconcile the obsessions of the past and the present, Chen Chuncheng intertwines the Borgian fantastic with the sensibility of classical Chinese literature in Submarine in the Night (Aristas Martinez), one of the most celebrated successes on the current Chinese literary scene, endorsed by critics and the public, which has led him to become a cult author for different generations of readers.
As part of the Casa Asia Meetings with Asian Writers series, Chen Chuncheng and Teresa Tejada, one of the two translators of the book from Chinese into Spanish, will talk, among other things, about imagination as a weapon against decadence, the suicidal beauty of artistic creation and the intricacies of fantasy and reality through the journey that the author takes the reader on throughout the work: an imaginary submarine, manned by a child, in search of adventures at the bottom of the sea; a garden hidden inside a park where a young girl recalls the happiest day of her childhood…
