{"id":7695,"date":"2013-03-04T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/?p=7695"},"modified":"2013-02-27T13:46:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T12:46:24","slug":"presentacion-de-libro-relatos-miticos-del-mundo-cotidiano-book-launch-mythical-tales-of-the-everyday-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/presentacion-de-libro-relatos-miticos-del-mundo-cotidiano-book-launch-mythical-tales-of-the-everyday-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentaci\u00f3n de libro: Relatos m\u00edticos del mundo cotidiano | Book launch: Mythical Tales of the Everyday World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Esta tarde te ofrecemos la presentaci\u00f3n del libro Relatos m\u00edticos del mundo cotidiano<\/em> escrito por Mercedes Aguirre. Te esperamos a las 18:00 en el Caf\u00e9 Literario. Adem\u00e1s se ofrecer\u00e1 t\u00e9 y caf\u00e9 por cortes\u00eda del Instituto Cervantes.<\/p>\n

Una mujer que ha perdido la memoria y es acusada de haber matado a su propio hijo, un periodista condenado a muerte, una joven que libera represiones e incomodidades por medio del deporte son algunos de los personajes de este libro. Con ellos y con las historias que componen\u00a0Relatos m\u00edticos del mundo cotidiano\/Mythical Tales of the Everyday World<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>,\u00a0Mercedes Aguirre reinterpreta y transforma algunos de los mitos de la antiguedad cl\u00e1sica y los sit\u00faa en la actualidad. As\u00ed el mito del dios Dioniso y las Bacantes esta convertido en una historia de suspense en torno a un misterioso crimen o el rapto de Ganimedes en una evocaci\u00f3n por parte de un viejo escritor de la influencia que su profesor ejerci\u00f3 sobre \u00e9l cuando no era m\u00e1s que un muchacho rebelde (en una relaci\u00f3n que podr\u00eda llamarse \u201cde amor y pedagog\u00eda\u201d). Por lo tanto, se trata de historias destinadas tanto al lector entendido que conozca las fuentes originales de estos mitos y pueda reconocerlos y seguir la forma en la que han sido interpretados como a cualquier lector de ficci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n

La\u00a0edici\u00f3n biling\u00fce\u00a0\u2013que surgi\u00f3 de la\u00a0colaboraci\u00f3n entre la propia autora y el profesor de la Universidad de Bristol\u00a0Richard Buxton, tambi\u00e9n especialista en mitolog\u00eda y autor de la traducci\u00f3n al ingl\u00e9s- permite que este libro llegue a un n\u00famero de lectores m\u00e1s amplio y asimismo sirva como\u00a0ayuda a la lectura para alumnos de habla inglesa que est\u00e9n aprendiendo espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n

Mercedes Aguirre Castro\u00a0naci\u00f3 en Madrid. Es profesora de Filolog\u00eda Griega de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y Visiting Fellow de la Universidad de Bristol. Especialista en mitolog\u00eda pero tambi\u00e9n enamorada de la literatura, combina lo acad\u00e9mico con la ficci\u00f3n, la investigaci\u00f3n con la creaci\u00f3n literaria. Ha publicado en Espa\u00f1a (como coautora) una serie de libros\u00a0Cuentos de la mitolog\u00eda griega<\/em>\u00a0inspirados en los mitos cl\u00e1sicos y uno\u00a0Cuentos de la mitolog\u00eda vasca<\/em>\u00a0inspirado en el folklore vasco. Es autora de\u00a0Nuestros mitos de cada d\u00eda<\/em>\u00a0(que fue finalista del I Premio literario Eride Ediciones) y de la novela\u00a0El narrador de cuentos<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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This evening the book Mythical Tales of the Everyday<\/em> by Mercedes Aguirre will be launched. The event will be at 6pm at Caf\u00e9 Literario. Hot\u00a0drinks will be served\u00a0compliment of Instituto Cervantes.<\/p>\n

A woman who has lost her memory and is accused of killing her own son, a journalist on death row, a young woman who releases frustrations and nuisances through sport are some of the characters portrayed in this book. With these characters and the stories that make up\u00a0Relatos m\u00edticos del mundo cotidiano\/Mythical Tales of the Everyday World\u00a0<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Mercedes Aguirre reinterprets and transforms some of the classical myths and transposes them to the present-day world. In this fashion, the myth of Dyonisus and the Bacchants is turned into a tale of suspense that revolves around a mysterious crime, or the abduction of Ganymede recounts an elderly writer\u00b4s reminiscence of his teacher\u00b4s influence on him when he was a rebellious youngster (in a relationship that could be labeled as \u2018love and pedagogy\u2019). They are therefore tales targeted to both the reader acquainted with these myths original sources, who recognizes them and can follow the author\u00b4s interpretation, as well as to any reader of fiction.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0bilingual edition, born from the\u00a0collaboration between the author and\u00a0Richard Buxton, professor at the University of Bristol, specialised in mythology and author of the translation into English, allows both to reach a wider audience and to\u00a0assist English speaking students who are learning Spanish\u00a0with their reading practise.<\/p>\n

Mercedes Aguirre Castro\u00a0was born in Madrid. She is professor of Greek Philology at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid and Visiting Fellow at the University of Bristol. She is a scholar specialising in Greek mythology but equally enamored with literature, hence her combination of academic work with research and literary creation. In Spain she has co-authored a series of books inspired on Classical mythology (Cuentos de la mitolog\u00eda griega<\/em>) and one based on Basque folklore (Cuentos de la mitolog\u00eda vasca<\/em>). She has authored\u00a0Nuestros mitos de cada d\u00eda\u00a0<\/em>(shortlisted for the inaugural Premio literario \u00c9ride Ediciones) and the novel\u00a0El narrador de cuentos<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Esta tarde te ofrecemos la presentaci\u00f3n del libro Relatos m\u00edticos del mundo cotidiano escrito por Mercedes Aguirre. Te esperamos a las 18:00 en el Caf\u00e9 Literario. Adem\u00e1s se ofrecer\u00e1 t\u00e9 y caf\u00e9 por cortes\u00eda del Instituto Cervantes. Una mujer que ha perdido la memoria y es acusada de haber matado a su propio hijo, un […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5,19,37],"tags":[107,114,155,444,248,1007,1009,365,1008],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7698,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695\/revisions\/7698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}