The Municipal Museum of Ethnography and Natural Sciences 'Jerónimo Molina' hosts on Saturday December 27 an Act Tribute centenary of the birth of Don Lorenzo Thomas Guardiola, hosted by their children in collaboration with the Department of Culture.
This event, which will take place from 19:30 pm, will put the finishing touch to a program of activities which was celebrated this anniversary.
Thus have conducted a conference in honor of the centenary of Guardiola Lorenzo Thomas (1908-2008).
Have taken place in the classroom culture of Caja Murcia and began hand of Francis of Assisi Gonzalez, Bachelor of Arts, who made a presentation that was one of the most illustrious writers of Jumilla.
Then Dolores Poveda and Maria Isabel Ureña, both graduates in geography and history, they referred to their biographies and their task as a historian.
In addition, three conferences, the first one on the 'Neocostumbrismo in the narrative of Lorenzo Guardiola', the second on 'The Arts' and the third one to about' The scripts he wrote for zarzuela. "
To end with this conference, spoke his niece Carlota Guardiola Ibáñez and Anna Thomas Smith, the latter with the theme "Under the youth forever."
Also performed two recitals, the first of these "Poems of Youth", which was conducted by alumni IES Arzobispo Lozano, and another conducted by the students of 1 º and 2 º's degree from the same center.
These conferences have been attended by family, friends and students of Lorenzo Guardiola.
According to the councilman of Culture says Juana Guardiola this act will be "the culmination of the activities organized by museums and as the finale to a series of events commemorating the birth of Lorenzo Guardiola."
Guardiola will be a beloved and well-deserved event, organized by his heirs and in addition the Department. "
In this act intervene Guzman Ortuño Pacheco, José Luis Ortiz Marín, Francisco Lencina Gutiérrez, José María Ibáñez Guardiola and Ana Martínez Martínez.
The voice will Pascuala Martínez Morales and the maintainer will Juani Riquelme Bernal.
As a writer, Lorenzo Guardiola belongs to the 'Generation of 36', both by year of birth and for years he began to publish, but for the author Jumillano should be greater emphasis on the period of greatest creative fecundity, which in publication, because of the serious difficulties that always found their work to see the light, as published in the portal regiondemurcia.com.
On the other hand, was a writer a bit dark, not for lack of quality in their works but by the isolation of any influential cultural focus.
Despite having a number of publications, three books of poems, a play, a novel, six novels and four short stories, besides the four works related to Jumilla, and an operetta premiered by a professional company, is practically unknown, except in certain very limited ways.
Besides taking into account any genre of Guardiola has a strong poetic rhetorical figures as different spring from his pen almost spontaneously: metaphor, simile, personification, paradox, synesthesia, the humor and irony the official said.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla