Last Friday afternoon, February 3rd, at the Ángela Peralta Gallery, the presentation of the book “Reasons to love Mazatlán” by Ernesto Hernández Norzagaray was held. The cover of the book is illustrated with the work “The arrival of Ángela Peralta” authored by Antonio López Sáenz.
Present were Víctor Antonio Corrales Burgueño, state president of the Sinaloense Party, Héctor Melesio Cuén Ojeda, leader of the PAS; Mexican writer Juan José Rodríguez and Raúl Rico González, General Director of the Instituto de Cultura de Mazatlán.
Aleyda Rojo as presenter expressed: “If one day you find yourself thinking of substituting a work appointment for a meeting with your friends in Olas Altas, it is because your life and customs have changed and you are already thinking like a Mazatleco, a pathology that alters nationalities in one day or in a few hours, and it makes you addicted to the port of Sinaloa forever, as stated in the famous poem by Constantino Cavafis, “La Ciudad”; prepare to grow old in the same streets and in the same neighborhoods, and if you distrust my words, the book; Reasons to Love Mazatlán by Ernesto Hernández Norzagaray offers you a kind of tribute, but also a manual to better understand how Mazatlan feels and is.
Luis Antonio Martínez Peña specified that the author gives us a special gift in his book, which is life experience, as an academic, as a writer, as a husband and as a father, of a man who arrived in Mazatlán in 1979 and came to work at the recently created School of Social Sciences of Mazatlán.
Here in this book we are going to find that feeling of getting to know this city step by step, we had to see this Ángela Peralta Theater reborn, commented Luis Antonio Martínez Peña.
The author of Razones para amar a Mazatlán Ernesto Hernández Norzagaray, thanked the presenters and said that this work strays a little from the path of academic issues to redirect on issues of daily life, he thanked the Autonomous University of Sinaloa that took the edition of his work; the Instituto de Cultura, Turismo y Arte de Mazatlán, which was awarded by the Ángela Peralta Gallery, and Antonio López Sáenz for accepting that his work was the cover of the book.
Gustavo Lozano Velázquez, former director of the Faculty of Social Sciences; Humberto Méndez, Lucila Aldama and Roberto Pérez Rubio, were people who stayed on the road and who are important for the creation of his work “Reasons to love Mazatlán”.
The literary afternoon was set to music with the performance of the Soprano Vanessa Gama, accompanied on the piano by Elías Esparza, while the cheerful touch was put on by All Dance from Cebtis No. 51 with its dance proposal under the choreographic direction of Blanca Ibarra
