The Fundación Carlos de Amberes (calle Claudio Coello, 99), in collaboration with the Instituto Polaco de Cultura, presents on Monday 11 November at 7 p.m., a dialogue with Adam Michnik (in the photo), Princess of Asturias Prize for Communication and Humanities, who will present his book Elogio de la desobediencia (Praise of Disobedience). Free admission until capacity is full.
The talk will feature the author of the book with Miguel Ángel Aguilar, journalist and president of the Fundación Carlos de Amberes; Maciek Stasinski, translator and prologuista of the book, and Ricardo Cayuela, director of Ladera Norte.
Elogio de la desobediencia is the first anthology of texts by this key figure in his country’s transition to democracy originally prepared for the Spanish reader. The collection of texts extends throughout his career, including essays essential to understanding the great challenges of our time. From the New Evolutionary Path (1976) and the mythical letter written in prison (1983), to the epitaph of Aleksiey Navalny and an interview on Putin’s Russia (2024), some are historical testimonies of a bygone era, several sound as early warnings of Europe’s drift towards populism and, finally, others present reflections of the most pressing relevance. The pages of some of the protagonists in recent European history, from Thomas Mann to Václav Havel, from Andrei Sakharov to Pope John Paul II. Among all of them, Michnik himself, for his lucid mind and heroic courage, stands out as the most fascinating of the characters.
Son of Holocaust survivors, dissident in communist Poland, political prisoner, member of the underground trade union Solidarnosc and director of Gazeta Wyborcza, the life of Adam Michnik (Warsaw, 1946), retraces Polish and European history, of which he is an intellectual witness, but also a political protagonist.
The Polish historian, essayist and political publicist was one of the main opponents of Communist Poland. His important life and intellectual career has led him to be awarded the Princess of Asturias Prize for Communication and Humanities, the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for Human Rights, the Legion of Honor or the Francisco Cerecedo Prize for Journalism.
Pages: 256
Publisher: Ladera Norte
Binding: Soft cover
ISBN: 9788412850185
RPP: 21,75 euros
