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Salvador Garcia Lax, philosopher and poet, introduced yesterday in the library of San Javier, the book "Black Illustrated Romances" co-authored with Zherno Alyzia illustrator.
A quality desktop publishing, with many illustrations, done with great care and that is especially proud.
"If you miss a feeding pot," he joked with the audience.
The book is the result of intensive research by Salvador Garcia Lax, after "rediscovering" the old ballads with his friend Matthias Tárraga minstrel.
Lax Garcia rewrite dealt four romances which includes the book from the hundreds of versions of selected thematic found dark, even macabre.
The illustrations, which make up 60 percent of the book, but imitate medieval engravings move between the time and hieratic style Alyzia which gives the image a touch macabre innocent and childlike, which refers to the iconography of Tim Burton.
Lax Garcia also explained that the book includes a nod to the literature of string, so that each verse has its own illustration, all imitating the ink pen.
The book includes the ballads "The love and death", that has been versioned, including songwriters like Amancio Prada and Victor Jara, and that he recited in the presentation, "Blancafor and Filomena", "The Count Olinos" and "Delgadina", which as in the other cases, discovered hundreds of versions, one which he sang in 1917 in Sarajevo, a Sephardic woman ethnographer in Old Castilian
The book was created with the aim of becoming a collection, so in addition to selling online and some libraries, the publishers are presenting in order to make the project viable.
The savings a year were allowed to publish this exemplary care that is available and to learn more about in www.romancesnegros.com.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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