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Mogador, or the Other Mexico
From June 02, 2014 until June 04, 2014
Alberto Ruy Sánchez is giving a conference in Madrid on June 4, on the occasion of the publication of "Quinteto de Mogador" ("Mogador Quintet").
This event, organized by Casa Árabe, the Alfaguara publishing company and the Mexican Studies Center of the UNAM in Spain, forms part of the series of events titled “Amrika: Arabs in the Americas” and will take place at 7:00 p.m. in the Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
Participating along with the author will be Jesús Ruiz Montilla, a journalist and writer, and Karim Hauser, who is responsible for the Governance area at Casa Árabe.
The old port city of Mogador, known today as Essaouira, is a fortress city from the mid-seventeenth century, the historical center of which was catalogued as a World Heritage Site by Unesco in 2001. Ruy Sánchez’s Mogador is the city of desire and the matter upon which he builds the imaginary city where most of his novels take place. “Quinteto de Mogador” brings together all five books set in this mythical city in Ruy Sánchez’s literature, a port located on the Atlantic coast of Morocco where winds blow that mix together with reality and dreams. Mogador is the place of storytellers, where they keep the mysteries of intimacy and human passions. It is the imaginary city of the Mexican writer and, as if it were a woman, the city itself is also his object of desire. It is the metaphor of a search for love, and at the same time the beloved woman herself.
Alberto Ruy Sánchez (Mexico, 1951)
He has written a series of books which have won awards and been translated on different continents, including exploration, invocation, poetry and, last of all, reflection on desire and its equivocations. From his university life in Paris, where he was a student of Roland Barthes and Gilles Deleuze, he has held onto the pleasure and the practice of essay writing. He was a close collaborator of Octavio Paz. Since 1988, he has been the director of Artes de México, a magazine for which he received an award in 2006 from his country’s publishing industry, having been given the highest distinction granted for a publisher’s career. Amongst other acknowledgments for his literary work, he has been named an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the government of France.
Participating along with the author will be Jesús Ruiz Montilla, a journalist and writer, and Karim Hauser, who is responsible for the Governance area at Casa Árabe.
The old port city of Mogador, known today as Essaouira, is a fortress city from the mid-seventeenth century, the historical center of which was catalogued as a World Heritage Site by Unesco in 2001. Ruy Sánchez’s Mogador is the city of desire and the matter upon which he builds the imaginary city where most of his novels take place. “Quinteto de Mogador” brings together all five books set in this mythical city in Ruy Sánchez’s literature, a port located on the Atlantic coast of Morocco where winds blow that mix together with reality and dreams. Mogador is the place of storytellers, where they keep the mysteries of intimacy and human passions. It is the imaginary city of the Mexican writer and, as if it were a woman, the city itself is also his object of desire. It is the metaphor of a search for love, and at the same time the beloved woman herself.
Alberto Ruy Sánchez (Mexico, 1951)
He has written a series of books which have won awards and been translated on different continents, including exploration, invocation, poetry and, last of all, reflection on desire and its equivocations. From his university life in Paris, where he was a student of Roland Barthes and Gilles Deleuze, he has held onto the pleasure and the practice of essay writing. He was a close collaborator of Octavio Paz. Since 1988, he has been the director of Artes de México, a magazine for which he received an award in 2006 from his country’s publishing industry, having been given the highest distinction granted for a publisher’s career. Amongst other acknowledgments for his literary work, he has been named an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the government of France.
