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Colección Obra Fundamental
This collection was created in 1995 to resurrect forgotten works by Spanish-language authors from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 2012 it was expanded to include the Cuadernos de Obra Fundamental, compilations of short texts in any genre with a markedly humanistic quality.
In 2022, after the Covid-19 pandemic, Fundación Banco Santander decided to begin publishing contemporary authors as well, with the aim of creating a space in which to create and reflect on the societal and individual transformations of our time.
The books are accompanied by interviews with the authors or anthologists and readings or dramatisations of excerpts in the form of podcasts. Audio recordings can be found on the foundation’s website and the main audio streaming platforms.
In order to reach a wider audience, the titles in this collection are also made available as e-books in online bookshops and libraries.
Multiple authors
This volume is a compilation of verses by twelve prominent contemporary poets: Antonio Colinas, Antonio Lucas, Aurora Luque, Carlos Pardo, Chantal Maillard, Clara Janés, Fermín Herrero, Jorge Riechmann, Luisa Castro, Raquel Lanseros, Vanesa Pérez-Sauquillo and Vicente Gallego.
The mind tormented by uncertainty, the need to find meaning in life and death, the quest for harmony with one’s environs, and doubts about which road to take surface in poems composed especially for this book. The poet, writer and university professor José María Parreño contributed an epilogue about the destruction of the bond between human beings and nature.
The podcasts based on this work include interviews and recitations of selected poems by their authors.
George Santayana
Una antología del espíritu is a collection of assorted writings (essays, poems, letters, autobiographical sketches, etc.) that document, in chronological order, every stage in the career of philosopher and writer George Santayana.
The volume was compiled, translated and prefaced by Antonio Lastra, Doctor of Philosophy, an independent researcher with the Instituto Franklin de Investigación en Pensamiento Norteamericano at the University of Alcalá and academic director of La Torre del Virrey.
The podcasts accompanying the book include a reading of selected texts, an interview with Antonio Lastra, and a conversation between Lastra and the philosopher Fernando Savater.
UIMP summer course
Fundación Banco Santander sponsored a summer course at the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP) dedicated to the writer Ramón de la Serna y Espina.
On 13 and 14 July, a group of scholars, journalists and writers led by Juan Manuel Bonet gathered at the Palace of La Magdalena in Santander to discuss the man and the cultural context and family circumstances that shaped his oeuvre.
Among those in attendance was literary researcher Daniela Agrillo, who compiled and prefaced a selection of De la Serna’s extensive literary output under the title La torre invisible. Antología esencial for the foundation’s Obra Fundamental Collection in 2020.
CartasVivas
Fundación Banco Santander and the University of Exeter support this audiovisual initiative to revive the legacy of relevant women in the cultural, political and social life of the twentieth century.
CartasVivas, meaning “living letters”, is a free online library of short films in which different actresses give dramatised readings based on their characters’ writings. Students from the University of Exeter, led by Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles, professor in Hispanic Studies and Gender Studies, were involved in the process of scripting and producing the shorts.
Three new “living letters” were presented in 2023, dedicated to the scientist Margarita Comas Camps, the writer Carmen de Zulueta and the psychoanalyst Irene Claremont de Castillejo, played by Maite Jáuregui, Laura Arnaiz and Jude Arkwright, respectively. The videos are posted on the website cartasvivas.org.
Thanks to the support of Fundación Banco Santander, the play based on the epistolary relationship between Elena Fortún and Carmen Laforet that premiered at London's Cervantes Theatre in 2022 was able to travel to Madrid. The chosen venues were the Teatro de La Abadía in Madrid proper (26 January–5 February) and the Corral de Comedias in Alcalá de Henares (10–11 February).
The letters that the two authors exchanged for eight years, until Fortún’s death, were published by the foundation in 2017 under the title De corazón y alma as a volume in the Cuadernos de Obra Fundamental collection.
Stage director Paula Paz used a combination of audiovisual resources, off-stage recordings and music to theatrically recreate the mutual confidences of the two women.