On the other hand, he will be in contact with a new aquatic species, in the form of monsters and with whom he will establish a very special relationship.Īlbert Sánchez Piñol (Barcelona, 1965) attended courses in anthropology which have influenced, without doubt, his role as a writer.
On the one hand, he will have a new partner, meeting which the author will use to make philosophical speculations, reconsidering the cultural origins of the human species.
Alone on the island, he will have to face an unknown horror. The protagonist is a fugitive from the Irish independence who, to run away from the society who has disappointed him, accepts an officer work on a remote island in the austral continent. Overwhelmed by panic, the protagonist imagination is presented with inconceivable mixtures of living forms and distorted realities which tense the expectation at every moment”, states the critic. “This is a book about fear, understood as an experience of emotion in front of incomprehensible forces which the man wants to explain from an insufficient reason. And ‘La Pell Freda’ achieved a complete commercial and critical success, being translated into 37 languages. “It is a cocktail book of adventures, of Roman reflections, of technical manual of geography …, all well mixed with irony”, he adds. In order to participate you just need to be a member of the group of the University of Valencia.Īccording to the critic Jordi Van Campen, Sánchez Piñol made, with this novel, a spectacular entrance in the field of literature. On this occasion, they will analyse ‘La pell freda’, novel by the anthropologist Albert Sánchez Piñol which granted him fame in 2002.Īs usual since the Club started last October, the group will meet at the Municipal Library ‘Palau de l’Exposició’, at 18:00.
This is the monthly colloquium which they do to pool their impressions about the latest work read. Members of Friends and Former Students meet again in their Reading Club this Tuesday, 6 May.
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