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The celebrations of Carmen Martín Gaite's centenary continue, this time with a lecture-recital on the writer's poetic work by María Luisa Rodríguez Antón, accompanied by the musician and poet Edgar Rubén Masa. Emilio Álvarez Villazán, Professor of Language and Literature, will introduce the event.

Carmen Martín Gaite's poetry may be unfairly overshadowed, despite the fact that it was in this genre that she began her literary career and despite the very high regard she herself held for her poetry, understood as that illumination that " enters unannounced " and whose presence permeates all her work. In it, the projection and interweaving of the poetic with her essays, narratives, and autobiographical work is clearly perceptible in common themes such as solitude, fear, the desire for desire, and the staunch defense of joy, freedom, and faith, contemplated from a neo-Romantic melancholy to an existential meditation.

These themes are magnified and brought closer to the reader's sensibility by the epiphanies revealed in her poetic language, yet another accolade that adorns her figure. This lecture is an invitation to explore the author's poetic journey, that poetry " in fits and starts ," as she herself describes it. The structure of the lecture-recital is as follows:

1.- Poetics. Projection and interweaving of the poetic in his essayistic, narrative and autobiographical work.

2.- Stages and evolution: from The Snowy Boat to After All .

3.- Themes and forms: from a neo-romantic melancholy to existential meditation.

All this theoretical exposition will be exemplified with a careful selection of illustrative texts, especially suitable for recitation.

Edgar Rubén Masa, singer-songwriter, actor and poet.
María Luisa Rodríguez Antón holds degrees in Romance Philology, Hispanic Philology, and French Philology. She is a Professor of Spanish Language and Literature and a writer with five published books of literary essays on the Classics, Latin American Literature (one of them on poetry), and Don Quixote. She has taught courses and given lectures at conferences and universities in Spain, Bolivia, and Brazil, where she worked as a linguistic advisor at the Spanish Embassy for two years. She has also written a book of short stories. She is a member of the Cervantes Society and the Women's Legacy Association. In recent years, she has specialized in giving lecture-recitals like this one on women's poetry from Spain and Latin America.