In this 2022 portal, the Association of Translators, Correctors and Interpreters of the Basque Country, the Association of Basque Editors, the Association of Basque Writers and the Galtzagorri Association, have given us a beautiful gift with the implementation of the Hitzak Zainari initiative. “To reclaim the custody of the words of the Basque literature,” in particular, we have been offered the Hitzak Zainari library, full of twenty endearing texts.

In fact, the vast majority of us have ended 2021 with injuries, without believing that our pains will soften 2022.ean. The enormous tensions caused by COVID-19 among States, in public space, in politics, at work, in friendships, in families and within each of them have accentuated emergency situations, motivated by the awareness of climate change or the economic-political limitations. In this context, forms of discrimination and violence have multiplied and strengthened, in the eyes of all, and the people of all generations feel increasingly isolated, increasingly lost, increasingly disrupted in my environment. This profound chaos is fueled by our addiction to immediate news, because it doesn't let us take our breath and liver, because we embark on the capacity for reflection and, consequently, the ability to anticipate with optimism.

The deceased care for their being wounded by the ingestion of antidepressant remedies or absurd lies of the rulers, placing hope in the magical virtues of virtuality and technology; and could not condemn the prisoners, because the loss of widespread trust in the nightmares by the powerful can be too harsh and see the system about to rot. Others will protect themselves through social commitment or political militancy. Others, through art, music or the word, will take care of their inner balance and their neighbor. That's the path that I love most to move forward, although in some way it can be a blind path.

With books, however, you force yourself to stop and re-enter momentarily, apart from confusing turbulence. These are moments of luxury: you get rid of miracles from the pressure of social stola, and then you can take a lucky time to think about smart survival. I spent such an esteemed season when I read Hitzak Zainari, and I still enjoy other works that I will read or reread in the coming days. I will name you here as a reader. Some stories, La Venganza de Teresa de Xan Idiart, to taste the novelty. VHS by Oier Guillan to walk the limits of literature. The novel Les Pierres Sauvages, by the architect and former convict Fernand Pouillon, to ensure that creation is, above all, an act of faith. Poetry also: North and South, by Elizabeth Bishop, and Aguas Doméstica, by Leire Bilbao, to take consolations and expectations. Because philosophy has accelerated. A clear book published by independent publisher Ander Berrojalbiz, Séverine Denieul and Javier Rodríguez Hidalgo entitled Les avant-derniers jours de l’humanité, {L’Autre Côté} on the democratic disaster we live in. And finally, the latest novel by Senegalese Mohamed Mbougar Entrada, La plus secrète histoire des hommes, which has just won the prestigious Goncourt Prize, to feel how this young Francophone African sees the human heart and how he has rethought the colonization of Africa. At the beginning of the year, I have no choice but to: & '97; Take care of the word, all literature buffs.