CATALONIA -- Lezing roman Victus geboycot door de Spaanse overheid - Signatuur (persbericht)
At the last moment is a lecture by the Catalan author Albert Sánchez
Piñol about his novel Victus, the fall of Barcelona canceled. The event
would be tonight (Thursday, September 4th) place at the Cervantes
Institute in Utrecht, but now it appears that the Spanish Embassy does
not allow the meeting. Publisher SIGNATURE is very surprised and
disappointed by this news. Juliette van Wersch, publisher Signatura, is
shocked that on Dutch soil, where freedom of speech is great thing, a
public conversation between an author and his translator is boycotted
from abroad. It shows the power of the word that a nota bene historical
novel can bring. Something cause This is a serious matter and it tends
to censorship. It is unfortunate and a publishing incomprehensible that
this author can not always tell. Spanish and Catalan history in the
Netherlands Nevertheless SIGNATURE convinced that the novel will find
its way to the reader
Victus is an adventure novel full of historic
ruthlessness, a love story and the description of the first major
pan-European conflict:. The fall of Barcelona in 1714 , where the
Catalans lost their independence. It is told by Martí Zuviría, a young
man from Barcelona who is an outstanding military architect. The
capricious fate makes him the city should strengthen engineering on the
one side and a strategy must come to besiege and destroy her. On the
other side
