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Encarnación Book Fair Offers Packed Schedule of Literary Events and Cultural Activities

From ABC Color · () Spanish

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  • Jorge Mendelzon will present “Standing: Words to Sustain the Soul,” a book about living with a persistent illness and the most vulnerable period of his treatment.
  • The Encarnación Book Fair runs through Sunday at the Mariscal Convention Center and the Urban Campus of the Autonomous University of Encarnación.
  • The program includes a large public book exhibition, author events, a performance by Purahéi Soul and 65 reading projects involving children and young people.

Jorge Mendelzon will present a new book about the hardest period of his life at the Encarnación Book Fair, which continues through Sunday with a full program of literary and cultural events.

The presentation of “Standing: Words to Sustain the Soul” will take place on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. The Asunción businessman and writer previously published “The Wisdom of Pain” in 2023. His latest work draws on his experience living with a disease that has not given him respite.

Mendelzon has spent more than two decades battling pigmented villonodular synovitis, a condition affecting his right knee that has led to about 34 surgical procedures. The 200-page book takes readers into the most intimate part of his experience: the final 15 months of treatment, when he felt most vulnerable.

the hardest period of my life

· Jorge MendelzonHe describes the period explored in his new book.

Juan Francisco Facetti, a friend of Mendelzon and Paraguay’s ambassador to Austria, wrote the prologue. He highlighted the value of Mendelzon’s testimony in a time that prioritizes autonomy, performance and control while deeply rejecting fragility, dependence and physical decline.

The book was presented at the Mariscal Convention Center. The fair also offers a major book exhibition, while meetings and presentations take place at the Urban Campus of the Autonomous University of Encarnación. On Saturday, the musical duo Purahéi Soul will perform. The annual event attracts more than 20,000 people and promotes literature and knowledge. This year, 65 projects are taking part in the “Let’s Go to the Encarnación Book Fair” contest, giving children and young people the chance to study books in class and meet their authors.

prioritizes autonomy, performance and control, and deeply rejects fragility, dependence and physical decline

· Juan Francisco FacettiFacetti discusses the social importance of Mendelzon’s testimony in the book’s prologue.
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