The Catalan writer and poet Clara Janes (75) yesterday became the tenth woman in history to become a member of the Royal Spanish Academy. It also is the seventh woman to hold a chair between forty-six current academic. His speech was based on The Song of Songs , attributable to King Solomon and crossed the centuries as a source of inspiration in the West and East biblical book. There, he referred to beauty as a means of salvation against chaos. He deepened, too, “the enigma” of writing and its mystical origin.
The author stressed the influence of the “wise king” in the East, in alchemy, in St. Thomas Aquinas, Fray Luis Leon, in Arias Montano, in John of the Cross, for whom the Song of Songs is the germ of its spiritual Canticle , or Santa Teresa de Jesus. In homage to that poetic influence he was born in the mists of time, academic newly titled his speech: “A star of infinite points”
Janes is a translator of writers from Central Europe and Eastern languages.. It was also highlighted as an essayist and novelist. His works include Voice Ophelia , The secrets of the forest , translucent areas , Rio to nowhere , Pilgrimage , Movements Sleepless and Epsilon or the Garden of Earthly Delights .
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