The Cervantes exhibition on Ana María Matute brings together more than 26,400 visitors, the most watched since 2010

The exhibition ‘Ana María Matute. Who does not invent does not live ‘opened on September 17 at the headquarters of the Cervantes Institute in Madrid, has housed a total of 26,455 visitors, which is the highest figure since 2010, according to the institution.

The exhibition about the Catalan writer will be closed next Sunday, February 9 after an extension (the closure was scheduled for January 19), so the Cervantes points out that The number of visitors, attending to progression in these last four days, could exceed 28,000.

Previously, the other more viewed exposure was ‘Love to the sea. The Neruda Caracolas’opened in December 2009 and that was until February of the following year, with 33,459 visitors.

The exhibition wanted to bring Ana María Matute to a general public, not only in her literary facet but also in her personal space, with her family life, her hobbies, her friends and her hobbies, to have a complete vision of both both The writer as of the woman, “explained the curator of the exhibition, the editor and philologist María Paz Ortuño.

For the expert in Matute’s work, having curated this exhibition has been “a great gift” with which people expect people to go to the author’s work of ‘Forgotten King Gudú’, since “it was in the back that mattered to her. ” This initiative has served to commemorate the centenary of the birth of the writer and when ten years of her death are turned.

The exhibition has rescued the first works of Matute written in notebooks and illustrations unknown to the public, specimens that spent a long time in silence because of the “censorship.” The journey is chronologically divided into four stages, referring to his childhood, youth, maturity (which in turn reflects the terrible depression that he dragged during this period) and his rebirth.

First work in notebook that would end up winning the planet

Numerous photographs, personal objects, letters or drawings of the author help to deepen her knowledge, and to discover unknown facets, such as the cartoonist and painter, thanks, among other pieces, to the delicious paintings she made for ‘Forgotten King Gudú’ ( 1996), his most beloved novel.

Another sample of this passion for watercolors and brushes is their ‘self -portrait’ made at age 14 and also houses this exhibition. In addition, valuable originals such as the school notebook have been included in which ‘Little Theater’ wrote by hand, a work that presented at nineteen years in the destination publishing house and supposed the beginning of his literary career.

The exhibition also exhibits for its reading an unpublished story of the collection of stories the foolish children (1956), ‘El Ahogadito’, which censorship did not approve.