TALK / POETRY / MUSIC “Camilo Jose Cela” by Sonya Surabhi Gupta at Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP) > 12noon on 17th December 2016

Camilo Jose Cela

Time : 12:00 pm Add to Calendar 17/12/2016 12:00 17/12/2016 13:30 Asia/Kolkata TALK / POETRY / MUSIC “Camilo Jose Cela” by Sonya Surabhi Gupta Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/12/talk-poetry-music-camilo-jose-cela-by.html Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP), New Delhi - 110001 DD/MM/YYYY

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Event Description : TALK / POETRY / MUSIC “Camilo José Cela” by Sonya Surabhi Gupta

Synopsis: Hispanist and translator of “The Family of Pascual Duarte” into Hindi, Sonya Surabhi Gupta, will talk about the work of the Spanish Nobel Prize, Camilo José Cela, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth. This talk will be followed by a poetry reading of poems by Cela, that will be read in the original language as well as in translations into Hindi, Bengali, Urdu and Marathi, and also some musical interludes by Cela contemporary composers.

About the writer: Camilo José Cela Camilo José Cela, in full Camilo José Cela Trulock (born May 11, 1916, Iria Flavia, Spain—died January 17, 2002, Madrid) Spanish writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989. He is perhaps best known for his novel La familia de Pascual Duarte (1942; The Family of Pascual Duarte) and is considered to have given new life to Spanish literature. His literary production—primarily novels, short narratives, and travel diaries—is characterized by experimentation and innovation in form and content. Cela is also credited by some critics with having established the narrative style known as tremendismo, a tendency to emphasize violence and grotesque imagery. Cela attended the University of Madrid before and after the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), during which he served with Franco’s army. His first novel, Pascual Duarte, established his European reputation. Traditional in form, it was both a popular and a critical success. His second novel, La colmena (1951; The Hive), with its fragmented chronology and large cast of characters, is an innovative and perceptive story of postwar Madrid. It solidified Cela’s critical and popular reputation. Another of his better-known avant-garde novels, San Camilo, 1936 (1969), is one continuous stream of consciousness. His later novels include Cristo versus Arizona (1988; “Christ Versus Arizona”) and the Galician trilogy—Mazurca para dos muertos (1983; Mazurka for Two Dead People), La cruz de San Andrés (1994; “St. Andrew’s Cross”), and Madera de boj (1999; Boxwood). Cela’s acute powers of observation and skill in colourful description also are apparent in his travel books, based on his trips
through rural Spain and his visits to Latin American countries. The most noted of these are Viaje a la Alcarría (1948; Journey to the Alcarría), Del Miño al Bidasoa (1952; “From the Miño to the Bidasoa”), and Judíos, moros y cristianos (1956; “Jews, Moors, and Christians”). He retraced the itinerary of his first travel book for Nuevo viaje a la Alcarría (1986). Among his numerous short narratives are Esas nubes que pasan (1945; “The Passing Clouds”) and the four works included in the collection El molino de viento, y otras novelas cortas (1956; “The Windmill and Other Short Fiction”). Cela also wrote essays, poetry, and memoirs and in his later years made frequent television appearances. In 1955 Cela settled in Majorca, where he founded a well-respected literary review, Papeles de Son Armadans (1956–79), and published books in fine editions. 
He began in 1968 to publish his multivolume Diccionario secreto, a compilation of “unprintable” but well known words and phrases. He became a member of the Spanish Academy in 1957. 

About the speaker: Sonya Surabhi Gupta is Director of the Center for European and Latin American Studies at Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi. Her research work focuses on translation studies and postcolonial literary and cultural studies. She has worked extensively as a translator and her publications include the Hindi translation of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel García Márquez ( "Ekant Ke Sau Varsh", 2003), “Pascual Duarte's family” by Camilo José Cela ("Pascual Duarte ka Parivaar ", 1991), “The
rebellion of the masses” of Jose Ortega y Gasset (" Jansamuhon ka Vidroh, "1998). She has also published an anthology of stories by women of India in a Spanish translation entitled Lihaf: Women's Stories of India (Madrid, 2001). 

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