“UNED Elche Honors Pedro Salinas, Generation of ’27 Poet, with Plaque and Masterclass”

“His work is linked to this land and being in the UNIT can help many young people and especially students to know the work of the poet, of the Generation of ’27who was a close friend of other intellectuals from Alicante”. Carlos Marichal, grandson of the poet Pedro Salinas, has traveled from Mexico to Elche to inaugurate this Thursday the plaque with which the Elche branch of the Distance Education University pays tribute in around the figure of the writer of the Generation of ’27 bearing his name.

In the same way, this relative, professor of History at Harvard University, and teacher in Mexico, will give a master class at the opening of the course of the UNED about the figure of his grandfather, despite the fact that he was barely three years old when he died.

an enthusiastic generation

In this meeting today he highlighted, moved, that the Generation of ’27 was “very united and enthusiastic with affability and optimism for the future that continued until the war, like the work of Alberti, Miró, Alexandre… Later they became some one of the most important figures in all of America”. In the same way, he has highlighted that the work of these authors it continues to be translated a lot into Italian.

At the meeting, Francisco Escudero, director of the UNED of Elche, stressed that the decision to add the name of the poet was unanimously approved by the governing board, since this initiative will allow further research and dissemination of the figure of the prolific writer.

A street “with personality”

The mayor, Carlos González. For his part, he has congratulated the university for the initiative “because the city is also built that way, linking it with people who represent values ​​that promote literature and poetryis a way of making the city and giving personality to the street.

Some people who knew the author personally did not want to miss this presentation either, such as the case of Pedro Guilabert, who, accompanied by his son, recalled that in 1951 he published an article on Pedro Salinas. His granddaughter has also congratulated him on that informative work.

Manual

In addition, Professor Jesucristo Riquelme, PhD in Philology, has introduced the attendees, including the Councilors for Culture and Education, Marga Antón and María José Martínez, ‘Pedro Salinas. Sigils of Love and College Adventure, the first critical manual published by UNED Elche in its more than forty years of educational service.

In this book, which will be given to attendees also during the opening of the course, the author has wanted to bring the writer’s work closer to the general public and the university community, combining rigor and dissemination to explain in detail the relevance of the professor, poet and essayist. Madrid, as an anthology of essays and poems.

Link with the province of Alicante

in letters from Peter Salinas to your wife in times of exilemade clear the attachment that the poet of the Generation of ’27 had the province. Above all, due to his experiences in Santa Pola, El Altet and Torrevieja during his youth, in his Lo Cruz farm.

Carlos Marichal Salinas, the son of Soledad Salinas, will talk about his grandfather’s stay in Elche, on his farm in El Altet. Arrived avowedly of Mexico, Carloso Marichal has ceded the rights to his grandfather’s production on this occasion and will sponsor some university study scholarships and an essay contest in honor of Pedro Salinas, always within the activities of the UNED of Elche.