Pérez-Reverte: “The state has abandoned the Royal Academy … – La Voz de Galicia

The writer and academic Arturo Pérez-Reverte said today that the state has “abandoned” the Royal Spanish Academy and “is in breach of the obligation” which has to support the work of this institution, vital to maintain the unity of a language spoken by 500 million people.

“I believe that the State is making a serious mistake with the Academy,” said today categorically Pérez-Reverte during the presentation school edition of “Don Quixote” who posted the SAR and Santillana, adapted by the author of La Reina del Sur .

The criticism of the Government of Pérez-Reverte, who participated in the presentation along with Secretary of the SAR, Darío Villanueva, occur after the state allocation to the Academy has decreased sixty percent in the last five years, which has contributed to the current deficit having this institution and its difficult economic situation.

These statements are also held two days before the Academy choose Director and, as there was some question about what will happen on Thursday, Pérez-Reverte said he sees clearly “requires a change in the direction” of the SAR.

Dario Villanueva, the person might happen to José Manuel Blecua, the current director, if Thursday gets enough votes, was now very cautious and only said he feels “hard to do what the Academy» ask you, as it has done until now.

Villanueva said the election of positions in the RAE constitute “an absolutely natural process, nothing traumatic,” and do not need to submit nominations, something to consider ‘a bronco country “as is Spain. “We are all candidates, and peers choose who at all times consider the best person. No nominations, no campaign, ‘said the current secretary of the SAR.

Pérez-Reverte took the opportunity to criticize “abandonment” suffering the Academy by the State and recalled that the Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, has not visited the RAE in years at the Moncloa. “The HKSAR consists of four buddies who meet every week, but a complex system that maintains diplomatic ties with America, and even when the Spanish governments have turned their backs on America, the Academy has always been connecting link and brotherhood and loyalty between them, “said Murcia novelist.

Getting 500 million Spanish speakers can be useful works like the” Dictionary “, the” Grammar ” and ‘Spelling’ ‘is not easy. It is the result of a complex and laborious work that requires extraordinary diplomacy and extremely fine, ‘he added.

The Royal Spanish Academy “is a matter of state and some governments have understood this because they know that the RAE is a platform of understanding with America, “said the author of El tango de la Guardia Vieja .

The work of the Academy require a complex structure of linguists and experts, “and all that costs money.” And SAR resources are “very limited”, Pérez-Reverte said before insisting that he, as an academic, feels “abandoned by the state.”