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Roque Baños Sociocultural Center hosted the presentation yesterday in Jumilla, the book by Jose Emilio Iniesta 'The painting of the monster. "
Before this presentation, the writer had a meeting with journalists in Papyrus Bookstore.
This is an activity included in the series 'The Library presents' of the Department of Culture and organized by the City Library, sponsored by the publisher Alfaqueque.
The editor Fernando Fernandez was commissioned to make a brief presentation of José Emilio Iniesta, while Eleuterio Jumillano Zaragoza, high school teacher and painter, gave some clues to invite you to read the book.
Fernandez said that this is a book "very suggestive, very well told with humor, stuck to reality and reads very well."
Its author is a school teacher, contributor to several magazines, has written some poems, several short stories and three novels in the market, as well as' The painting of the monster ',' If Vivaldi learn music theory 'and' The laughter of women dead '.
A writer, according to Fernandez, "whose works are always present in history and art, a passion for the artistic, scholarly, but very affordable and uses the pedagogy and didactics."
To the editor "José Emilio invents and creates fiction but scientific and historical basis."
Eleuterio Jumillano Zaragoza painter did a brief tour of the book and its contents and gave keys to invite your reading.
In this way, said it has a protagonist who is a painter of painters, one of the greats of modern history, which revolutionized painting and getting to paint the air, "a mysterious artist who did not leave or signatures, or even bones , a character, Caravaggio, the rotunda today as recently completed the fourth centenary of his death. "
Zaragoza acknowledged he was surprised with the book "a fascinating novel, very fast, showing contemporary life and work of Caravaggio, a history of books attributed and unattributed."
For the painter Jumillano, "in the book reflects the author's expertise in both the main character as in the side, with a fast-paced action, where they see parallels with other writers, including film, from a very well crafted hidden and constructive criticism to the art marketing. "
For its part, the author José Emilio Iniesta began by thanking the support of the Department of Culture, the Municipal Library and the words of the editor and Eleuterio Zaragoza.
Murcia writer stated that 'The painting of the monster' "revolves around a table and possibly Caravaggio painted this work weaves a hidden interest intrigue and murky, the ambition to possess the box for the supposed value that could have, the desire to find a mystery, a family secret, a maze and a sort of patchwork of the tormented artist's life as seen by an art history professor who has a depression following the death of his wife. "
To Iniesta "sometimes there are a number of relationships that makes the mind, and in this case, the book perhaps stems from seeing paintings by Caravaggio, one of my favorite painters, which was developed in me this story, for me is the ideal artist for this novel, "he says.
Also states that "my novels have had art and beauty, where, sometimes, hide the miseries that surround the artists."
"In this novel, I reflect not only the bitter side of a painter, sometimes busts one of his enemies chasing him with an ax, killing half mafia in Rome, which shattered the windows of a teacher with stones, etc. I have also tried to develop that spark of genius and that angel in him the demon of Caravaggio, "says the author.
Finally, José Emilio Iniesta states "is a book that is aimed at all audiences, because it is a novel that can read a passionate painting, as someone who likes a portrait of modern urban society, as is a novel and varied mix of genres. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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