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It will be in the House of Culture of Caravaca.
It will begin at 8:30 p.m. and will feature the interventions of Francisco Marín, editor;
Juan García Fernández, Professor of Language and Literature and Enrique Fuentes Blanc, Forest Technical Engineer.
Old roads, old stories is a real journey and also a reflection on the drift of the old rural world, facing the "brutal" times we live.
The journey through steep mountains, and basins and plateaus more friendly to man, intends to give life to what he lost.
The dozens of stories that are told are associated with the network of roads that woven that old peasant world of villages and farmhouses, highlighting a whole culture, a way of facing what nature gives good and bad, with little mediation Technological
The literary essence of Old roads, old stories is a good shelter to avoid the anxiety that the world of today is subject to.
The author's personal reflections and support in a particular vision of the friar San Juan de la Cruz, who traveled through these mountains over four hundred years ago, also form an important part of the body of this book.
Although the direct scenario may seem linear, through the terms of Caravaca, Moratalla, Nerpio and Santiago de la Espada, the story, vision and reflection encompass the entire mountain and peasant world contained in the Segura mountain ranges, understanding these in its broadest sense, where the "five provinces" converge (Murcia, Albacete, Almería, Granada and Jaén).
Although the road completed ends at the summit of the Mare de Pincorto (Nerpio), the literary report must be taken to the spine of the most specific Sierra de Segura (between Santiago de la Espada and Segura de la Sierra).
The work is not strictly denounced, but aims to alert the enormous attack that in recent decades has been consummated against a rich heritage of an economic, architectural, cultural and ethnographic nature, and against a whole idiosyncrasy about life.
This loss has been due to rural abandonment, but also due to the customary reinterpretations that have portrayed the peasant and mountain world with artificial bucolism, naive and backward people to be treated with displicent contempt or unacceptable paternalism.
Thus, Old roads, old stories wants to be an approximation to the latent life on the paths, horseshoe paths, trails, paths and the habitat they framed, claiming the dignity of peasants and mountain ranges.
Jesús López García is a professor of Geography and History, has developed most of his professional career at the IES "San Juan de la Cruz" in his hometown.
In his teaching years he had a wide dedication to the teaching of Geography, on which he has different publications, textbooks and presentations, highlighting in them the use of maps and the physical environment as a learning tool.
On the stage in which Old roads are developed, old stories also carried out geographic research works and several collaborations, among which the one published by the CSIC in the project "The cultural change from the IV to the II millennia BC in the region of the Nororeste de Murcia "(Climate, Relief, Hydrology, erosive processes).
He has carried out activities in the field of ethnography and heritage recovery of cultures of oral tradition in "the five provinces" (Albacete, Almería, Granada, Jaén and Murcia), which have been decisive, along with their own roots and vital experience, in the conception of the present work.
In literary matters he has made several collaborations in the press and recently published the work And also lived (Editorial Gollarín 2017), which has as reference the same scenario and shares the purposes of this book.
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