MALAGA, Oct. 15 (EUROPA PRESS) –
La Malagueta Cultural Center of the Diputación de Málaga presents four new meetings in its usual program of conferences for next week, which begins with the historian and archaeologist Luis Benítez de Lugo Enrich, on Tuesday, October 18 at 7:00 p.m., to discuss the origin prehistoric of the Iberian Peninsula.
In dialogue with the anthropologist and orientalist Alfredo Tucci, the relevance of the migratory flows from the steppes of present-day Russia to the Peninsula during the Bronze Age will be discussed. The cultures of that time already had the first signs of spirituality and rituals linked to the solstices, the seed of traditions that have been perpetuated until today (Christmas, Saint John’s bonfires, etc.).
Luis Benítez de Lugo Enrich is an archaeologist and professor of Prehistory at the Complutense University of Madrid. He directs archaeological excavations at Bronze Age and Iron Age sites. Specialized in the spiritual aspects of these societies, his discoveries in these deposits on the DNA of the inhabitants of the Bronze Age have revolutionized the idea of genetics and the origins of the Spanish, a work that has merited the publication of his discoveries in Science Magazine.
The cultural offer is doubled on October 19 with a new installment of the morning cycle ‘The traces of the past’, at 12:00, in which the archaeologist Manuel J. Ureña will talk about garum and other recipes of Roman gastronomy. In the afternoon, the writer Justo Navarro will kick off the season of his Reading Club with the novel ‘The talent of Mr. Ripley’.
Ureña will bring the audience closer to the particular garum, a sauce made from salted fish that became popular in Roman times, becoming an almost essential condiment present in many culinary recipes. Attendees will learn about the context of Roman Malaga, how this sauce was made and distributed, and some of the archaeological sites that bear witness to its history. Some Roman recipes in which it was used and the latest research on the reproduction techniques of the original formula will also be known.
Already at 7:00 p.m., the reading club with the writer Justo Navarro begins its activity this term with the sharing of the novel ‘The talent of Mr. Ripley’. In Patricia Highsmith’s most famous novel, her most fascinating character appears: the disturbing and amoral Tom Ripley, a prototypical figure of a genre that the author invented, located between the crime novel and the crime novel, where the most exciting suspense is combined with a dizzying psychological analysis.
The week concludes on Thursday, October 20, at 7:00 p.m., with a dialogue between the writer Montero Glez and the doctor and writer José Antonio Trujillo to make a brief review of the myth as a rational story constructed from symbols and their meaning in the scientific environment.
Montero Glez (Madrid 1965). He is the author of the novels: ‘Sed de Champagne’ (1999), ‘When the night forces’ (2003) and ‘Manteca Colorá’ (2005) as well as a volume of short stories entitled ‘Besos de fogueo’ (2007). Collaborator in different media and under different pseudonyms, he has gathered his opinion articles in ‘Diary of a fan, football is like this’ (2006) and ‘Summer: the crude and the rotten’ (2008). His novel ‘Pólvora Negra’ was awarded the 2008 Azorín novel prize.
After that, several publications followed one another such as ‘A ras de ‘yerba’, apuntes futboleros’ (2009), ‘Gist and knife’ (2010), ‘Huella jonda del hero’, a travel book that won the Llanes Prize, and a compilation of stories under the title ‘Polvo en loslips’ (2012) and ‘The most beautiful goal in the world and other soccer pieces’ (2013). In 2014 she won the Logroño Novel Award with ‘Talco ybronze’. In 2016 she obtained the Ateneo de Sevilla Award for her novel ‘El carmín y la sangre’. In 2019, she won the Café Bretón Award for her narrative essay ‘La imagen secreta’. And in 2022 he publishes his last novel to date: Mermaid Meat.
Luis Benítez de Lugo Enrich and Montero Glez, guests of the week at La Malagueta