The Catalan Center of Luxembourg invites you to the conference "From Cervantes to Servent: History of a biographical and literary manipulation" by the philologist Jordi Bilbeny, which will take place on Wednesday 4 in June 19.00 hours at the CCL premises (88, Rue de la Semois; Luxembourg Ville).
As a continuation of the successful conference that Bilbeny himself offered us a year ago (specifically the past 8 June 2013) on the manipulation of the history of Catalonia and on the Catalan discovery of America, this year he will explain his theory about the Valencian origin of Cervantes, or rather, Serve.
Jordi Bilbeny (Arenys de Mar, 1961) is a writer and researcher. Degree in Catalan Philology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and PhD in Modern History at the University of Barcelona. In recent years he has combined his research work with teaching Catalan language for adults. In the mid eighties, recent graduate, began to study censorship in Christian texts throughout history, a task that was momentarily put on hold by the desire to write a first work of fiction about the figure of Christopher Columbus. In the documentation phase it was realized that the data around the character is inconsistent and, even, contradictory. From here, began his career as a historian. His first book, Brief relation of the destruction of history, was the result of his research on censorship.
His current works expand in every sense of Catalonia's historical past, with a desire to confirm or deny the suspicion of the official identity of historical figures such as Christopher Columbus, Miguel de Cervantes the Servant, in another register of literary analysis, of works of literature possibly written in the original Catalan but manipulated, misrepresented and translated, like the anonymous one The Lazarillo of Tormes O The Celestina.