A long time
- Cancer, so aggressive and deadly, became a poetic and meeting pretext for Jon Iñaki Lasa and his uncle, a cancer patient: “I wrote not to publish the book, but to order. My uncle was told he had cancer. When we were young, people were dying very little of cancer. It was an excuse to talk to him.” Jon Iñaki Lasa (Gernika, 1963) has Alice and I have 1982 (Ustela), and 1984 Ene bilduma (Susa) has Andalucia.
This book has some reflection, aesthetic search, swollen tongue, collection and cultism: “If you go to the church of Temppeliaukio and hear Chopin from outside (…).”
The world goes away and we write poetry, it seems the writer has thought. The eternity of beautiful things and we the passing birds: “Tell me your stories/ One to one/ I’m not in a hurry/ I know you’re not a dream…”
Viajes picks up in his first pieces the metal reasons for his return to poetry after years. In the initial pages there are references and triggers, some optimists, others quite orwell: Eric Arthur Blair was born at home in Portobello.”
As Tere Irastortza says in the previous conversation, in these poems there are names of place, music, art… quotes of all kinds. I thought it was a way to go far without moving from where we are, to invent islands, but also a way to do it within ourselves. There are many obvious and other very secret signs, concepts of the heart, its clear and gloomy parts: “But know that if I wake up, Lilith, I will choke you with my own hands.” Poetry advances towards prose in this book, extends the breath of stories through repetitions and become almost postmodern folk tales.
It is not easy to express the empathy that it produces and, at the same time, coldness.
They're poems that summarize all the writer's concerns as a failed shot: they resonate in their ears and then it's hard to get a grim feeling out of their mouth.
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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Although the title may seem like a self-help book, this is a Western text that Erein has published in the narrative section. In the excellent translation of... [+]
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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-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... [+]
The one who approaches this book, first of all, will be with G. It meets the images of Mabire. They are comic style images, very accurate strokes and celestial experiences that help to easily interpret characters and situations. These images coincide with the text, which is... [+]
For a matter of work, I had to reread this wonderful book. A short book that brings together feminist theory, genealogy and history, and that will surely have a lot of criticism looking on the net and, surprise! I found one, which Irati Majuelo wrote in Berria.El book published... [+]
The book just published by the editorial Consonni has been a great surprise to the public. I did not know the work of Montserrat Roig and the finding has been truly surprising. On the one hand, because the novel was first published in a little more than the death of Franco (in... [+]