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The Department of Culture of Mazarrón Book Day celebrates the visit of Dragó (20/04/2015)

The author will discuss the profession and vocation as a writer

The writer Fernando Sanchez Drago is the special guest of the Department of Culture of the City of Mazarrón to celebrate World Book Day, which falls on April 23.

Dragó visit the House of Culture of the municipality (Street Burial of the Sardine, 17) at 20.00 and speak about their craft and vocation as a writer and his works.

He also signed copies of readers who want it.

Drago has over 40 published works, has been Planeta Prize for "The maze test" (1992), Fernando Lara Novel Prize for "Parallel Kills";

Spirituality Martínez Roca Award for "The path on the left hand" and National Essay Prize for one of his most acclaimed works "Gárgoris and Habidis.

A magical history of Spain ".

(1979)

As a print journalist, radio and television has worked in various countries.

It was Ondas Award for "The world by storm" and National Award for Promoting Reading for "Black on White".

Biography

It's posthumous son of Fernando Sánchez Monreal, journalist and director of the news agency Phoebus, director and owner of the Noti-Sport agency and chief editor of the newspaper La Voz, a conservative Republican ideology (akin to match Miguel Maura, Party Republican Conservative), who was killed by the rebels in September 1936 in the vicinity of Burgos after being reported to the fascist authorities by journalist Juan Pujol.

After the civil war circumstances do not allow you to figure out which side had killed his father until 1956. Drago tells the journey of his father -from left Madrid to report on the military uprising on July 17, 1936 until assassinated in Burgos in his novel parallel Kills.

Degree in Romance Philology (1959) and Modern Languages, specializing in Italian (1962) and Doctor of Letters from the University of Madrid.

She taught Spanish literature at the Cervantes Institute in Madrid.

Throughout the fifties and sixties participated in protests against Franco.

During his youth he was a member of the Communist Party of Spain, PCE, and as a result of his opposition activities against the Franco dictatorship, served 16 months in prison and remained in exile seven years.

Despite his initial communist affiliation, has subsequently defined its ideology as individualist anarchist.

His political thought of an unorthodox and radical liberalism, being an admirer of Ayn Rand or Margaret Thatcher, building your own system, mixing oriental philosophy, such as Taoism and Hinduism, with a stubborn defense of individual rights to life, private property and bullfighting.

Anti-statist sedicente eurosceptic declared (in fact the day of the entry of Spain into the European Union sent a telegram to the Ministry of Justice asking "before the infamy and high treason committed" the stateless status, strictly speaking can be considered a sui generis individualist anarchist (anarchism market), so sometimes he has publicly allusion.

His work Seek complex expression, literary language conceived as something completely out of the ordinary language, this results in the choice of an unusual vocabulary, use of lot of enumerations and adjectives, in the profusion of metaphors and the use compound sentences and syntactic structures with strong nesting.

Try a recurrent themes such as spirituality, development of consciousness, wisdom, religion or literature.

Novels like The Way of the Heart or Parallel Kills are strongly autobiographical theme.

Other tests, such as Gárgoris and Habidis or The Left Hand Path, collect the author's thought, one of whose basic features is in tune with the philosophical world of East and rejection of modern Western world and the "Judeo-Christianity".

In the same vein, when Gárgoris and Habidis analyzes the Spanish history, Drago denies the European rationalism and Christian faith, values ​​originating contraponiéndole mystical Gnosticism and a deep unknown antiquity which considers: "The VI century BC is the century Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra, the Orphic movement, Pythagoras, the Presocratics ... That's the best moment in world history. All we know is said in this century and since then the world is in steady decline. "

Source: Agencias

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