Report of a course
A very dear writer says that it is a book that he would really like to write, and what you will do if that book is not just read, even if that book is one of the classics of universal literature – and at this point, it is a shame that it is publicly acknowledged that that classic of universal literature has not been read so far. But we are among friends, and there is no place for shame – by the way, because in the media there is less and less talk about universal literature that makes Euskera better and better, right? In my discharge I will also say that the film yes, that I saw it at the time – for pure intellectual interest, of course. Conclusion: what difference is there between the film and the book; in favor of the book, of course.
Because the film focuses on a unique aspect of the novel: In Vietnam, under the French colonialism of the 1930s, in the loving relationship between a teenage white girl and a richer and more mature Chinese lover, and in the eroticism that this relationship liberates – don’t forget the sheer intellectual interest of watching the film. Baiki, one of the themes of the novel is this eroticism, more specifically the desire itself – “it is about desire, the desire for affirmation, the desire for liberation, it wants to know life in its entirety, including failure”. But it is only in the intellectual interest that we can justify the fact that the film has been limited to that aspect. Because otherwise, the novel is much richer, much more complex, much more satisfying. Eroticism, desire, initiation into sex, initiation into sex, as innocent as perverted. A relationship between a 15-year-old girl and a young Chinese trader who quickly becomes a social ban and a public scandal. The relationship with people, also with friends, with siblings, especially with the mother: “In the stories about my childhood (…) I would say that I referred to the love we felt for our mother, but I don’t know if I’ve talked about the hatred we felt for her, or the love and hatred we felt for each other.” After all: “We have the story of a learning, no doubt, of a woman who begins to be a woman.”
Prior to the intervention of Rosa de Diego: “The lover, who won the Goncourt Prize in 1984, is a milestone in the writing of Marguerite Dura, both because of the success he had, and because in his literary evolution the path of autobiographical writing began.” Something that has nothing to do with the literature of the writer that you love – and perhaps that is why you would really like to write it, because you will never be able to do so – but that offers more than one level of reading – it is worth, for the sake of mere intellectual interest – that is worth reading.
Barrengaizto
Beatrice Salvioni (Translation:
deceit Fernando Rey)
Txalaparta, 2024
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Fernando Rey has chosen the title of Barrizto to translate La malnata de Beatrice Salvioni. King says he has tried to be the voice of the... [+]
PELLOKERIAK
Ruben Ruiz
Illustrations: Joseba Beramendi, exprai.
Elkar, 2022
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Rubén Ruiz offers a new work of short stories. They are not micronarratives, because the stories, although they can be read independently, have a... [+]
Memet
Noemie Marsily and Isabella
Cieli For Centos, 2022
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We opened the zipper of the camping in red and looked through the leek along with Lucy. With this cover, the reader receives the comic book Memet. Simple words... [+]
A Heart Museum
Leire Vargas
Elkar, 2024
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The Basque cultural system has a thirst for young people. That's what Leire Vargas said in the written column in Berria. The industry is looking for fresh, varied and diverse... [+]
What you love. Word recall, live reading
Miren Billelabeitia
Pamiela, 2022
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Miren Billelabeitia has been a professor at the institute, a literary aficionado and a professor of Universal Literature for years. In 2022 he... [+]
Snarka Lewis Carroll
Hunting
Images:
Translation and Edition of Henry Holiday:Manu LÓpez Gaseni
Pamiela, 2024
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The work we have before us was published in the spring. After the works of Alice in Wonderland,... [+]
Lighting
Miriam Luki
Susa, 2023
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Translations
Miren Agur Meabe
Elkar, 2023
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Last year, Miren Agur Meabe published the novel Itzulerak. As the main characters are young people, we could say that it is juvenile literature, but when literature is good, it is for... [+]
Text:
Ilan Brenman
Illustrations: Guilherme Karsten
translation: In Alkain
Denonartean, 2024
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At the end of this album is a quote from Benjamin Franklin: “There has never been a good war, nor a bad peace.” And... [+]
Pozo
Goiatz Labandibar
Erein, 2024
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The Pozo de Goiatz Labandibarren is a growth novel that takes place one day: the descent of menstruation. Or in other words, a hero's journey, why not.
As often happens in this... [+]
Sorry as if there were no
Mariana Travacio
Erein, 2024
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Josefa, neskame
Alaitz Melgar Agirre
Elkar, 2022
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Josefa Agirre Etxeberria was one of the women who was raised during the Franco regime. After being exiled at the age of fourteen, he was forced to change his residence... [+]
In the maze of
the theatre I Ander
Lipus EHAZE and Susa
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Playwright Ander Lipus has published with EHAZE and Susa his publications on theatrical autobiography and theatre. In the maze of theatre I. Notebook of Bitácora and... [+]
-It was an ordinary afternoon. For anglerfish.” This evening is what Maite Mutuberria tells us in this album. The book has very few texts and the images tell us very well the development of history.
From the beginning we can see in the illustrations a large and quiet... [+]