Dear Friends
Next Tuesday, November 30, 2010 , at 20.00 hours , is hosting the book launch disasters of war of Manuel Martín , published by Editions Sial at English University Foundation (C /. Alcalá, 93, 28009 Madrid. Tel: 91 431 11 93).
Speakers at the event: Gustavo Villapalos
Salas, a professor at the Universidad Complutense and foreword of the book,
Basilio Rodríguez Cañada , editor and president of the PEN Club of Spain, and
the author the book.
I hope. Sial
Editions
C /. Bravo Murillo, 123 - 3. No Left.
28020 Madrid Phone: 91 535 41 13 - Fax: 91 535 70 53
Email: prensa@sialedicion.es
Next Tuesday, November 30, 2010 , at 20.00 hours , is hosting the book launch disasters of war of Manuel Martín , published by Editions Sial at English University Foundation (C /. Alcalá, 93, 28009 Madrid. Tel: 91 431 11 93).
Speakers at the event: Gustavo Villapalos
Salas, a professor at the Universidad Complutense and foreword of the book,
Basilio Rodríguez Cañada , editor and president of the PEN Club of Spain, and
the author the book.
I hope. Sial
Editions
C /. Bravo Murillo, 123 - 3. No Left.
28020 Madrid Phone: 91 535 41 13 - Fax: 91 535 70 53
Email: prensa@sialedicion.es
Manuel Martín Sánchez (Ávila) graduated in Law at the Universidad Complutense. The last twenty years has worked as Manager of the English University Foundation, dedicated to promoting the humanities in the university. Contributor to various cultural radio programs, has published the following books: Dictionary of English slang (Tellus, 1997), which gathers several thousand words and colloquial phrases, used for teaching English at different universities in Europe and Japan. Researcher of our traditional folklore, published, mythical creatures and magical characters English (Edaf, Essay, 2002) which is systematized and grouped for the first time about two thousand English popular imaginary beings. He is the author of a trilogy which includes novels, balneo (Edaf Narrative, 2003), The procession of lost souls (was 2008) and The Fountain (Was, 2009). Also as a collector is the author of two books of proverbs: The best sayings for everyone and almost everything, (Random House Mondadori, 2003) and Proverbs for daily life (Edaf, 2004).
disasters of war
The peaceful life of Martin, a young servant of the painter Goya, breaks suddenly one morning in May 1808, when he suddenly finds himself involved in the disturbances that occur against the Royal Palace of Madrid, the French soldiers fired into the crowd gathered there. Flee to the neighboring Puerta del Sol to meet the locals that crowd fight fiercely against the soldiers of Napoleon. Seeing that the clashes have spread throughout the city, fearing for the safety of his girlfriend, Manuela Malasaña, runs in your search, found refuge with his father in the Park Monteleón. Since that time, Martin will be inadvertently caught in a spiral of violence that will not be released until many years later, during which seek to comply with a terrible oath of vengeance that drowns and a curse. Wellington, The Determined, Fernando VII or Jovellanos, are some of the characters they will encounter in their hectic life adventure that Goya set out in a series of eighty-two master prints that have gone down in history as The Disasters of War , sum and summary of the trail of horror and evil that creates any conflict.
The peaceful life of Martin, a young servant of the painter Goya, breaks suddenly one morning in May 1808, when he suddenly finds himself involved in the disturbances that occur against the Royal Palace of Madrid, the French soldiers fired into the crowd gathered there. Flee to the neighboring Puerta del Sol to meet the locals that crowd fight fiercely against the soldiers of Napoleon. Seeing that the clashes have spread throughout the city, fearing for the safety of his girlfriend, Manuela Malasaña, runs in your search, found refuge with his father in the Park Monteleón. Since that time, Martin will be inadvertently caught in a spiral of violence that will not be released until many years later, during which seek to comply with a terrible oath of vengeance that drowns and a curse. Wellington, The Determined, Fernando VII or Jovellanos, are some of the characters they will encounter in their hectic life adventure that Goya set out in a series of eighty-two master prints that have gone down in history as The Disasters of War , sum and summary of the trail of horror and evil that creates any conflict.
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