Identity
Seamus Heaney (An Seanmhullach, Derry, 1939 – Dublin, 2013) was born in a Republican family in Northern Ireland. English imperialism, that oppression, included it forever on the list of Irish nationalist writers. Like many other writers on the island, he lived during the century of the disease: “An Irish poet has a direction to the English literary tradition by using the English language, but it will hardly feel at home.”
His first book of poems was Death of a Naturalist (1966), and by then they had already created a literary atmosphere in Belfast, peppered with a political atmosphere: “It wasn’t my obligation, but it was my problem.” Moved from 1972 to the south, there flourished an authentic poetry with roots in the north and wings throughout the world, which plays without giving up politics with lyricism, confusing the mystery and the symbol with reality. The Bible of this flowering was North (1975): “Material for an old mill,/ And I saw it with my heart eyes/ A global stone ash in balance,/ Stones stacked as vertebral bones,/ Ground crushed bone marrow.” And it seemed to me that Xabi Borda has made a strong and fine translation, as rich as effective.
And I think this book is going to be enjoyed by those who know how to enjoy the gifts of nature every day, whether it's the green of the grass, the seal of the earth, and those who seek a connection with our well-being, with our problems.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. As Beñat Sarasola points out in his foreword, he was one of the largest poets of the last century. But Seamus Heaney was already one of the great ones in his country. “Where the serene water/ The Neagh River overflowed in the course of the lake/ As if it had reached a plain bank of the world/ And it was shining/ in the incessant present of the Bann”. The new metaphors of Seamus Heaney are also ancient, they have their origin in myth, they are classically Celtic in their Roman forms. Maybe that's why you think you're reading a friend's book for the first time. At first it's naive, then you're going to start distinguishing the inlineates.
Finally, you will wonder how, being from Derry, he knows so many things about Euskal Herria. n
CORRECT ERRORS: Last week a wrong picture of the author was published in this section: Pierre Bordazarre “Etxahun” by Iruri was the photo. Pierre Topet needed a barkoxtarra “Etxahun”.
Guardasola wants rain
Patxi Zubizarreta
Illustrations: Irrimarra
Ibaizabal, 2024
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30 years ago Patxi Zubizarreta published the book Marigoringoak hegan; J. M. Illustrated by Lavarello and by the hand of the Catalan publisher... [+]
Eyes on the horizon
Writer: Illustrator Miren Agur
Meabe: Ane Pikaza
Elkar, 2020
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Miren Agur Meabe has published several texts and books. He's worked with all the literary genres: children's and youth literature,... [+]
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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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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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... [+]