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The Traveler’s Odyssey
From April 01, 2013 until April 18, 2013
On April 18 in Cordoba, Ezequiel Martínez is presenting his book La odisea del viajero (The Traveler’s Odyssey), at an event co-organized with Editorial El Páramo.
Attending the event, along with the author, will be the City Councilman for Culture of the Cordoba Municipal Government, Juan Miguel Moreno Calderón, and the publisher, Ricardo González Mestre. The event will take place at the Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9) at 7:30 p.m., with free entrance until its capacity is full.
In the words of María Novo, the stories which make up The Traveler’s Odyssey could be described as “tree-like stories,” because in them all there is a main trunk (almost always well-rooted in the ground), but then a multitude of “branches” appears suddenly, which the narrator slides along fearlessly. These digressions never keep him from returning to the core of his traveling chronicles, in such a way that, in the end, you feel like he has climbed the tree and hung off of many of its branches. But in the end, he tightly hugs the trunk that holds it all up.
Ezequiel Martínez invites us to share our baggage and allow ourselves to get carried away by the tales of travel and mythical stores which make up this odyssey, in which narrator and reader travel to: Mexico, with the story of Manwela, between the past and present of a country in upheaval; Dublin, in an enthusiastic homage to James Joyce’s Ulysses; Sicily, along with Stefano Corleone; Crete, Madrid and Toledo, following the footsteps of El Greco, and finishing the tour in the distant, mythological lands of Norway and India.
With a degree in Journalism from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, after completing a Master’s degree in Environmental Education given by the UNED-UNESCO, he specialized in environmental topics. Since 1992, he has directed and hosted the program “Tierra y Mar” (“Land and Sea”) on Canal Sur TV, dedicated to agriculture, livestock farming and the environment. He directed the summer course “Sustainable Encounters, Communication, Science and the Environment” (Carmona, 2004-2010) for the Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville. As a journalist heading “Tierra y Mar,” he has received many awards, including the National Environmental Journalism Award (1998), the Andalusian Environment Award (1999); the “Angel Serradilla” Journalism Award (2008), for defending environmental values and his commitment to Sustainability, and the “Picudo Award of 2010” for defending Andalusian olive groves and oil (2011). His notable publications include: La polémica de la Posmodernidad (The Controversy of Post-Modernity, several authors. Libertarias, 1986), Tiempos de clausura. Historias y leyendas de los Cartujos de Andalucía (Times of Closure: Stories and Legends of the Carthusians of Andalusia, Castillejo, 1999), La cabra de Rawalpindi. Relatos viajeros de aquí y de allá (Rawalpindi’s Goal: Travelers’ tales from here and there, RD, 2005), and a chapter on “Doñana and the Atlantic Coast” in Andalucía: Viaje al asombro (Andalusia: Trip to Amazement, several authors. Lumwerg, 2008).
In the words of María Novo, the stories which make up The Traveler’s Odyssey could be described as “tree-like stories,” because in them all there is a main trunk (almost always well-rooted in the ground), but then a multitude of “branches” appears suddenly, which the narrator slides along fearlessly. These digressions never keep him from returning to the core of his traveling chronicles, in such a way that, in the end, you feel like he has climbed the tree and hung off of many of its branches. But in the end, he tightly hugs the trunk that holds it all up.
Ezequiel Martínez invites us to share our baggage and allow ourselves to get carried away by the tales of travel and mythical stores which make up this odyssey, in which narrator and reader travel to: Mexico, with the story of Manwela, between the past and present of a country in upheaval; Dublin, in an enthusiastic homage to James Joyce’s Ulysses; Sicily, along with Stefano Corleone; Crete, Madrid and Toledo, following the footsteps of El Greco, and finishing the tour in the distant, mythological lands of Norway and India.
Ezequiel Martínez (Madrid, 1948)
With a degree in Journalism from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, after completing a Master’s degree in Environmental Education given by the UNED-UNESCO, he specialized in environmental topics. Since 1992, he has directed and hosted the program “Tierra y Mar” (“Land and Sea”) on Canal Sur TV, dedicated to agriculture, livestock farming and the environment. He directed the summer course “Sustainable Encounters, Communication, Science and the Environment” (Carmona, 2004-2010) for the Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville. As a journalist heading “Tierra y Mar,” he has received many awards, including the National Environmental Journalism Award (1998), the Andalusian Environment Award (1999); the “Angel Serradilla” Journalism Award (2008), for defending environmental values and his commitment to Sustainability, and the “Picudo Award of 2010” for defending Andalusian olive groves and oil (2011). His notable publications include: La polémica de la Posmodernidad (The Controversy of Post-Modernity, several authors. Libertarias, 1986), Tiempos de clausura. Historias y leyendas de los Cartujos de Andalucía (Times of Closure: Stories and Legends of the Carthusians of Andalusia, Castillejo, 1999), La cabra de Rawalpindi. Relatos viajeros de aquí y de allá (Rawalpindi’s Goal: Travelers’ tales from here and there, RD, 2005), and a chapter on “Doñana and the Atlantic Coast” in Andalucía: Viaje al asombro (Andalusia: Trip to Amazement, several authors. Lumwerg, 2008).
