Novel ''Amarilis and the Impossible Country'' by ULS scientist will be presented in Peru

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The work published by Editorial Universidad de La Serena will be reviewed by the writer and journalist Enrique Planas and by the writer and communications consultant Richard Primo.

At the Cultural Center of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, the novel ''Amarilis and the Impossible Country'', written by the researcher at the University of La Serena, Dr. Ernesto Gianoli Molla, will be launched this Monday, May 12.

Starting at 19:30 p.m., this work, which was published in 2013 by Editorial U. de La Serena, will be presented by the person in charge of the publishing house, Alejandro Abufom, and commented by the writer and cultural journalist from Diario El Comercio , Enrique Planas, and by the writer and communications consultant, Richard Primo.

Regarding this opportunity to launch the novel in his country, Dr. Gianoli expressed that ''it is a very significant event, both on a personal level, because Lima is the city in which I was born and raised, and where the plot develops. of the novel, as well as on the institutional level, since a book from the ULS publishing house is presented abroad.''

Let us remember that the novel tells the story of ''Felipe'', a young Peruvian who studies literature at the U. Complutense and who travels to his country to review a documentary archive for the work of his doctoral thesis. This search shows you hidden details of the relationship between Amarilis, an anonymous poet from the Peruvian colonial era, and Lope de Vega, to whom she wrote the famous poem ''Epístola a Belardo''. 

''Looking for contacts to reach the archive, Felipe meets Claudia, who introduces him to a group of students participating in a literary gathering. It is the last months of the year 2000 and Fujimori's authoritarian and corrupt regime seems to refuse to disappear. Gradually, Felipe becomes romantically involved with Claudia and discovers that the social gathering group is preparing a redemptive assassination. Letting himself be carried away by Claudia, despite her skepticism and postponing her literary research, Felipe finds himself involved in the operation. The backdrop for the constant struggle between reckless idealism and the most irrefutable hopelessness is the city of Lima and its history, where nothing seems to happen for the first time,'' the scientist mentioned during the launch of his work as part of the XXXII anniversary. from the University of La Serena. 

In this way – said Dr. Ernesto Gianoli – the places, the context and everything that surrounds the plot show the "concern of the individual for the fate of his society, a sorrowful, involved look at that reality that surrounds''.