Felix de Azua enters the RAE – Quadratín Michoacán

MORELIA, Mich., March 13, 2016.- The writer and Ph.D. Felix de Azua (Barcelona, ​​1944) has taken possession of his place today ( chair “H”) at the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) with a speech entitled a neologism and Hache . On behalf of the corporation, has been welcomed Mario Vargas Llosa. The ceremony was presided over by the Minister of Education, Culture and Sports in functions, Inigo Mendez de Vigo, as published by the SAR on its website.

Azúa was selected academic of the June 18, 2015 to fill the vacancy left by the philologist Martin de Riquer, who died in 2013, “one of the most prominent medievalists who has given Europe”, as it has defined the new academic. This precisely has “seized the opportunity” of their income to “tell, in story form, which I owe to Martin de Riquer.”
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part of academic work, he noted De Azúa in his speech, “it is to collect and classify new species (words) that occur spontaneously [...]. But another equally important part is to propose words which are necessary to fill a void of meaning that has been exposed. ” As an example, it has been serendipity ( ‘trove that occurs accidentally or casually), debated by the plenary in 2012.” the story pointed bring to -HA De Azúa- because there is a relationship between serendípica Martin de Riquer and who will now occupy with great humility his chair. “

then recalled how he met Riquer, in 1970, when he lectured in Barcelona,” Weapons and armor of knights Catalans in the Middle ages “. During the following years, all “dead archipelago terms of silent words” was what lured me Riquer. Immediately “I started thinking about a novel that recovered. Was it possible to bring back to life the terminological collection of medieval and Renaissance lexical prints without seeming resurrection of papier mache? “.
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the “glare” of Tirant lo Blanc Eisner was what convinced De Azúa “I had to write a novel chivalrous adventures.” Before this, however, he spoke of another serendipity, “which met the editor Carlos Barral and Mario Vargas Llosa when looking for a Eisner and they found a Riquer.” The new academic was then referred to the issue of Tirant that appeared in 1969, the result of the friendship between Barral and Vargas Llosa and prefaced Riquer. The previous, 1947, had been in the care precisely Riquer.

The above-mentioned writing a novel project was postponed, continued De Azua, “until I found, do not know whether by serendipity or chiripa suitable text “to unearth the treasure of Riquer and try to give it a impostada life.” That text was to a French knight of Champagne, Jean de Joinville, born in 1225, and I was going to allow the ambitious task of giving life to dozens of dormant words, defunct or forgotten. “

So ‘I started writing my first novel acceptable. It was published in 1982 under the title Mansura and one of my supporters in this academy, Javier Marias, the just reissued by pure serendipity in its editorial chivalrous the Kingdom of Redonda. “

Before concluding his speech, Felix de Azua recalled that, forty years ago Martin de Riquer, “unbeknownst to him, began to bring me to this chair now occupied his chair.”
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welcome to the RAE He has been given the Nobel prize for literature Mario Vargas Llosa. The Peruvian writer has highlighted the new member of the corporation ‘interest and expectation that his writings raise for many years in the intellectual milieu of Spain [...], becoming an inevitable reference. ” In its “indisputable influence” in civic and cultural matters Vargas Llosa has referred in his speech.

Ha highlighted as the main features of it, a “radicalism -ir to the root of things, connatural, never try to dodge the bulk to the major issues of today, they are risky. ” And, according to Vargas Llosa, one of the most seductive is “that integrated the arts and letters is his vision [...]. Read Felix de Azua is stimulating and instructive, because it reminds us that culture is one, although it manifests itself in many fields and genres, and literature, if not communication does not exist. “

Finally, Mario Vargas Llosa has highlighted Felix de Azua, above all, “has ideas, living thoughts that are speeding the commonplace, jolts to the mediocrity culture, exhortations to intellectual disorder against an order subject to conformism and cowardice means accepting the fashions by fashion. “

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