{"id":5861,"date":"2012-05-28T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/?p=5861"},"modified":"2012-05-28T10:49:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T09:49:53","slug":"presentacion-de-libro-la-roja-lo-que-pudo-ser-y-tambien-fue-espana-book-launch-what-spain-could-have-been-and-it-was-la-roja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/presentacion-de-libro-la-roja-lo-que-pudo-ser-y-tambien-fue-espana-book-launch-what-spain-could-have-been-and-it-was-la-roja\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentaci\u00f3n de libro \/ Book launch: La Roja: Lo que pudo ser y tambi\u00e9n fue Espa\u00f1a \/ What Spain could have been and it was: La Roja"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Empezamos la actividad cultural de la semana con la presentaci\u00f3n, hoy lunes, a las seis, en el Caf\u00e9 Literario, de\u00a0La Roja<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, la \u00faltima obra del premiado autor y periodista anglo-espa\u00f1ol Jimmy Burns<\/strong> Mara\u00f1\u00f3n.<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>La Roja<\/em> es tal vez uno de sus m\u00e1s ambiciosos libros, puesto que va mucho m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de una simple narraci\u00f3n de la historia del futbol en Espa\u00f1a para ofrecernos una visi\u00f3n controvertida de la transformaci\u00f3n social, pol\u00edtica, y cultural de Espa\u00f1a en los \u00faltimos cien a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n

Con una perceptiva \u00fanica, inteligente, provocativa, y objetiva que le da su doble nacionalidad y legado ilustre, Burns Mara\u00f1\u00f3n invita al lector a acompa\u00f1arle en un viaje<\/strong> al coraz\u00f3n y alma de un pa\u00eds de Norte a Sur y de Sur a Norte<\/strong>. Saliendo un d\u00eda de su casa londinense y tomando el tren para el aeropuerto de Gatwick, Burns Mara\u00f1\u00f3n se encuentra a pocas horas investigando una etapa oscura y violenta del colonialismo brit\u00e1nico en las minas de R\u00edo Tinto. El autor atraviesa Andaluc\u00eda, pasando por el barrio de Triana en Sevilla, entre v\u00edrgenes, \u00a0toreros y poetas, y siguiendo otra pista, entre castellanos y catalanes \u2013 cul\u00e9s y madridistas \u2013 que le lleva al Pa\u00eds Vasco. All\u00ed descubre las ambig\u00fcedades de ciertos nacionalismos.<\/p>\n

Pod\u00eda ser una novela, pero no lo es. Pod\u00eda ser un libro de viajes, pero no lo es. Pod\u00eda ser un libro sobre f\u00fatbol pero no lo es. Es todo esto y mucho m\u00e1s. No importa si eres futbolero o no, este es un libro que todos deber\u00edan leer para saber m\u00e1s de un pa\u00eds que no se acaba nunca.<\/p>\n

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The cultural activity starts this week with the book launch today at 6pm at Caf\u00e9 Literario of\u00a0La Roja<\/a><\/strong>, the most recent work of the Anglo-Spanish prize-winning author and journalist, Jimmy Burns Mara\u00f1\u00f3n. <\/strong>It\u00a0is perhaps one of his most ambitious books, and one which goes much further than a simple narrative of the history of Spanish football. It offers a controversial perspective on the social, political, and cultural transformation of Spain during the last hundred years.<\/p>\n

With the unique, intelligent, provocative, and objective perception of his dual nationality and eminent background, Burns Mara\u00f1\u00f3n invites the reader to accompany him on a journey to the heart and soul of a country from north to south<\/strong> and south to north. Leaving his London home one day and taking the train to Gatwick Airport, within a few hours he finds himself exploring an obscure and violent episode in British colonialism in the mines of R\u00edo Tinto. The author travels across Andaluc\u00eda, passing through the district of Triana in Sevilla, among Holy Virgins, bull-fighters, and poets and, following another trail between Castilians and Catalans, between fans of Barcelona and followers of Madrid, he comes to the Basque country, where he discovers the ambiguities of certain nationalisms.<\/p>\n

It could have been a novel, a book of travel, a book about football, but it is none of these and all of these, and a great deal more. It does not matter whether or not you are a football fan, it is a book which all should read in order to know more about a country they believe they know.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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