The presentation will take place next Monday, December 13, at 7:30 p.m. at the San Sebastián Hospedería Hotel, located at 21 San Sebastián Street (Cieza).
The event, scheduled for 7:30 p.m., will be attended by editors Fernando Fernández Villa and Francisco Marín García, historian Francisco Javier Salmerón Giménez, and writer Francisco Pino García.
The publishing houses Alfaqueque and Gollarín, in a new collaborative initiative, present Magellan: The man and his feat, by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, a renowned work considered one of the author's greatest works. A richly illustrated edition, it includes twenty drawings by Pascual Adolfo López Salueña, a renowned artist who has collaborated on previous editions of Gollarín, as well as an academic contribution in the form of a prologue by Professor Carlos Martínez Shaw, Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the UNED.
Its publication coincides with the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Magellan and Elcano expedition, a publication that has been incorporated into the celebration activities by the National Commission created for this purpose by the Ministry of Culture.
Magellan: the man and his feat It is now available in bookstores and large stores.
Stefan Zweig
(Austria 1881-Brazil 1942)
He is one of the best-known European writers of the 20th century. His work has been widely disseminated through such accomplished stories as Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok, Twenty-four hours in the life of a woman or Chess Novel, but also through essays as suggestive as Castelio against Calvino or Brazil, country of the future (his posthumous work). History also made its way into his output with such celebrated books as Stellar moments of Humanity, but above all from a series of truly splendid biographies, such as the trilogy entitled Healing by the Spirit, Marie Antoinette and the no less dazzling one dedicated to Magellan.
This approach to Stefan Zweig would be incomplete without highlighting his spirit of concord, his Europeanism, damaged and punished in the midst of the greatest crises suffered in Europe in the modern era due to the two world wars, and his humanistic greatness, which inherits the best of the culture of his time and the most beautiful of human nature: compassion.