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Colección Obra Fundamental
This collection was created in 1995 to retrieve the work of 20th-century Spanish authors. In 2012 it was expanded to include the Cuadernos de Obra Fundamental, compilations of short texts of any genre largely forgotten in the bibliography of their authors.
In 2022 the collection ventured for the first time into contemporary literature to offer 21st-century authors and readers a space for creation and reflection on topical issues.
To ensure the wider dissemination of its literary catalogue, the Foundation converts all its titles into e-books and distributes them to digital shops and libraries.
The books are complemented with a selection of dramatised texts in podcast format available on the Foundation’s website and the main platforms for this type of content.
Various authors
This volume in the Colección Obra Fundamental is a compilation of twelve texts by contemporary writers that discuss the future of humanity while combining fiction with the everyday.
The topics addressed include technology abuse, scientific breakthroughs, social control, the dehumanisation of the working environment, the consequences of the climate disaster, the non-existence of time and life after death. César Antonio Molina was commissioned to write the epilogue.
The presentation took place on 22 February at an online press conference and on 25 May Cultura Commodore hosted an encounter with eight of the authors (Andrés Ibáñez, Ana Merino, Cristina Cerezales, Irene Gracia, José María Merino, Juan Manuel de Prada, Mercedes Cebrián and Pablo d’Ors).
The podcasts that accompany the book include interviews with the authors as well as dramatisations of the texts.
Carmen Conde
This notebook is a compilation of Carmen Conde’s interventions in the En voz de mujer programme on Spanish National Radio (1967-1969), as well as a selection of other radio broadcasts between 1970 and 1972.
The broadcasts, which adopt the form of reflections, short essays, narratives and plays adapted for radio, offer the author’s opinion on topics such as literary creation, the role of women in society, faith, child and animal welfare, etc. Twelve of the radio scripts were dramatised and converted into podcasts.
The book was presented on 21 June at a press conference at the Foundation’s headquarters, attended by Fran Garcerá, who has a PhD in Hispanic Studies from the University of Valencia and compiled the anthology and wrote the prologue, and the poet Ana Rosetti.
CartasVivas
Fundación Banco Santander and the University of Exeter created this audiovisual project in 2019 to highlight the role that different women played in the social and cultural life of the 20th century. Their testimonies are presented as short films directed by Professor Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles, an expert in Hispanic and gender studies.
The poets Concha Méndez, Ana María Martínez Sagi and Dulce María Loynaz—played, respectively, by Adela Leiro, Teresa del Olmo y Leila Arias—were the subject of the “living letters” published in 2022. The presentation took place on 14 December at a press conference at the Foundation’s headquarters.
CartasVivas on stage
The Foundation also supported the performance at the Cervantes Theatre in London from 19 to 21 May of CartasVivas, based on the correspondence between Carmen Laforet and Elena Fortún during the period 1947-1952. The letters between the two authors were published in 2017 as a notebook in the Colección Obra Fundamental, entitled De corazón y alma.
The stage production designed by the theatre director Paula Paz combined different audiovisual devices, voice-over recordings and music to represent the confidences of the writers, played on stage by the actors Paula Rodríguez (Carmen Laforet) and Elena Sanz (Elena Fortún).