Oholtza gaineko bertsolaritza utzi berri, Ulises euskaldunaren azalean agertu zen Xabier Amuriza Bilboko Bidebarrieta liburutegian, maiatzaren 19an. Maisua omentzeko beste emanaldi berezi hauek egingo dira ekainean: 16an Etxanon Amurizaren gaiak eta garaiak berbaldia; 17an Durangon Emaidazue freskura lagunarteko kantaldia eta 19an Etxanotik Berrizera Amurizaren bideak eta aireak erromesaldi artistikoa.
Xabier Amuriza has been very attentive, expectant and hopeful on stage. Dress in black, a touch of solemnity is noted. “Suddenly I realized it was Ulysses,” the recital begins. So a child named Ulises begins a fascinating journey through life in which he sees the avatars of the world, but he doesn't always understand them.
It is a hearing divided into five acts in which Ulysses lived well. With the word in her only instrument, Amuriza has had all her listeners hooked on history for an hour and a quarter, and minutes have passed quickly. The program has it in memory, also in humor. With comic anecdotes, fascinating stories, and ingenious reflections, attendees have known Ulysses’ vital trajectory and wondered if they are listening to a fantasy account or an intense realism.
In fact, in the world of Ulysses, people have names taken from classical Greece, while animals have the most prestigious thinkers, such as Descartes, Newton and Kafka. In the same way, Ulises will meet with characters from the traditional rural society: priests, pastors, bertsolaris, etc.
Ulises, in the first part of the program, will show the world from the innocence of a child. In the second, something more toothed and with a job as a postman, you will learn the bittersweet things of life through curious characters. The third and fourth parts are shorter, with a more acidic humor and greater exaggeration.
In the fifth paragraph, it completes the hearing with a space for reflection. From the watchtower of the years, Xabier Amuriza believes that once we lived it is enough, since if we lived for the second time we would do the same again. “You have to smell death to start enjoying life,” he said, citing Gabriel García Márquez. In that he was eager to squeeze out life. He testified to how well Ulises lived: “I haven’t retired, I’ve changed my boat.”
Ulises, on the continuous journey of the postman, has known most of the intricacies of life, just as Xabier Amuriza has also known them. “It took me 75 years to realize that that child named Ulysses was me.” The time has come to return home, but it has not drifted down the road to Itaka. “I have returned to Euskal Herria, to Zornotza, to Etxano, to Torreburu, and along the way I have found you all.”
