Before a classroom full of staunch and curious readers, the University of Salamanca experienced an afternoon that exuded literature and culture.
In a day dedicated to the award-winning Luis Alberto de Cuenca, with the author himself present, the winner of the 2017 Planeta Prize and ambassador of mystery, Javier Sierra, has built a climate of tribute in the form of a colloquium to the poet’s universe.
During a relaxed and close conversation, both writers have intermingled literature with the emotion of childhood, comics, dinosaurs, heroes and myths that accompany the construction of an entire life.
Sierra has drawn a portrait of Luis Alberto de Cuenca, whom he has defined with a word that knows no boundaries: poet. From there, both have been unfolding a conversation dotted with memories, readings, imaginary adventures and references to the stories that forge sensitivity since childhood. It was, right there, when Luis Alberto himself uttered the phrase that could summarize the day: ““Childhood is the deepest homeland.”
With that conviction as a compass, the table has become a territory where Verne and Superman, the Grail and comics, dragons and reading memory have coexisted for almost two hours.
The public, sovereign complicit and attentive, has attended a meeting in which erudition has not lost warmth, and where literature has appeared not as a distant refuge, but as a way, always eternal, to continue looking at the world.
