Eduardo Zamacois: attività editoriale e opera letteraria

Eduardo Zamacois (Pinar del Río, 1873- Buenos Aires, 1971) was a main actor of the spanish’s literature and edition movement from the first third of the 20th century. He was the founder of magazines that had a big impact like “Germinal”, introductive of the sicalipsis (“La Vida Galante”) or so innovative that deserved an special chapter in the history of literature (“El Cuento Semanal” e “Los Contemporáneos”). With this work, it is intended to recreate the most significant stages from his autobiography adventure including the new information that offers his non before published letters exchange with his last sentimental partner. As a writer, his work was very popular in his homeland, translated to the world and reissued in Ibero-America. His literature work is based in three different phases. He began with the use of gallant literature (with books like La enferma, Punto negro) and took an adventure with the pays of mystery and irony (El otro, El misterio de un hombre pequñito, La opinion ajena) to finally focused in a narrative style of a realistic kind, that includes social critique (Las raíces). His last published novel in Spain is a portrait of Madrid during its long siege by the nationalist troops (El asedio de Madrid), a profound tribute to the people’s heroism and a declaration of love to the capital, that was his place of residence for a long time. While his exile, that took him to Cuba, New York and Buenos Aires, he worked in the radio, the dubbing industry and in finishing his most detailed bibliography, Un hombre que se va, a valuable document of that time.

Los Misterios de Samotracia: Orígenes del culto

En el presente trabajo de investigación se aborda la cuestión del origen de los Misterios de Samotracia. Se hace desde una perspectiva novedosa y multidisciplinar; pues, además de las informaciones y opiniones foráneas de los autores de la Antigüedad, se tienen por primera vez en cuenta los testimonios arqueológicos, epigráficos, numismáticos e iconográficos procedentes de la propia isla. Se examinan su territorio (la isla y su entorno, los mitos y leyendas, la toponimia), su culto (las teorías sobre su fundación, el santuario, los dioses) y su historia (desde el Neolítico hasta la Edad del Hierro), para averiguar qué poblaciones habitaron en Samotracia antes de que ésta fuera colonizada por los griegos; con el fin de descubrir la cultura con que éstos habrían tropezado y de la cual habrían heredado su culto. Se llega a la conclusión de que dicha cultura habría sido la tracia; y de que, en origen, en el culto mistérico samotracio habrían sido venerados la “Madre de los Dioses” tracia y Sabacio.