MADRID (EFE) .- The Spanish writer Arturo Pérez-Reverte said today here that education and culture are the only solution for people progress and the vileness and fanaticism that annuls the different thinking are addressed.
In a meeting with correspondents, the author said his new book “Good Men” (editorial Alfaguara) reflects on how Spain was displaced in their scientific development and thought in the eighteenth century to impose religion and the closure to new ideas.
The book tells the story that academic of the Royal Spanish Academy, Hermogenes Molina, and Admiral Pedro Zárate, traveling in the eighteenth century to Paris clandestinely get the volumes of the “Encyclopédie” of D’Alembert and Diderot, which is banned in Spain.
The journey becomes an adventure to dangers and uncertainties between Madrid and Paris, and in the effort of the protagonists by promote reason, science and modernization.
The author (Cartagena, Spain, 1951) stressed that while France, the United Kingdom and other countries were favoring the new doctrines and science, along with countries Spain Hispanic Americans could not escape the dogma of the Church.
He emphasized that in the eighteenth century in Spain was much discussion of the role of science and enlightenment and the reaction of the Church, and that is present in your novel.
“When I started this novel wanted it to be an adventure books, friends, a cultural and fun vicissitudes with cervantinos dialogues, but as I continued I began to enter that dark terrain is also true for this, “he said.
” This novel speaks of culture as a solution for then and now, as the only way humans progresses, understood and not wrecking each other ” he said.
He clarified that his book does not address this topic in sociological terms or politicians, but rather shows certain that a people without books, without education, but also without listening and dialogue “is uneducated and is lost we have not done nor there (in Latin America) or here (Spain) efforts to raise generations of educated citizens “
.”; efforts have been thwarted by interests of powerful and cowards who are silent “, he said.
He said that among other reasons that in Spain that happen, is that after the war between Christians and Muslims The Inquisition is installed “as a watchdog of the victors”, there is no reconciliation and the tendency to end the vanquished is generated.
“The tendency to subtract rather than add, is at the origin of the vileness that has the Hispanic, including Latin. The difference is that a man or an intelligent people, listen, not judge; and we will judge and we silence before hearing “he reflected.
He reiterated that his novel” shows that even though there are differences of ideas “books, travel, shared feats and education” create bonds of endearing fraternity “without impose by violence.
” Even in the worst times there is always good men, and the reader smile to see that it is possible friendship and loyalty among people who do not share the same criteria, “he said.
He commented that the book is dedicated to” good men “who like the book it is Hermogenes Molina are academic language, which in Spain and America and other countries work selflessly . “the proper use of Spanish
He added that his players” are heroic for his attitude mainly on personal dignity, not by any ideology “
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