We came from there.
He fought the Nazis, the colonels then banned his poetry, he was arrested inside the house, and yet his combat songs are as natural as his breath, quiet: “Who will stay here to remind us/ when we hear the key in the lock and the long chain/ dragging towards the infinite white, where, on one side,/ still moistens the last straw we have thrown.”
In Greece everything goes to the burden of tradition. Their poets have had a great ability to turn back into classic what the classics had already written before. The Sikelians and Kazantzakis, the white fabrics of the boats of Elitis in the blue sea, the quiet fire of Seferis… To the Books of Poetry of the World Joannes Jauregi now brings us the selection of the great Yannis Ritsos (Monembasia, Peloponnese, 1909 – Athens, 1990). Well drawn, well chosen: “I came to the hill, I stopped, I looked around and screamed./ Down, the stones fell on the stones.”
Over the Aegean Sea, on the plane you see an island of Miriada. The smaller ones also represent the whole. And the biggest are the timelines, but also the greens. Ritsos himself tends to recapitulate and write judgments. Sometimes, however, “an irresistible black desktop, two silver chandeliers,/ your red pipe. He sits on the chair, almost invisible…” begins to say and is able to write twelve poems for Kavafis. It could be said that Ritsos is telling us the Iliada and that his voice is equally lyrical and light.
Perhaps because the unreality it suggests is true, it can bring pictures of ancient Greece today or today with the rhetoric of the dress myth: “Only your lira and your head came to Lesbos by the force of the current. Why, then, your song?/ Is it possible that light and darkness have ever been associated (and then also apparently)?/ Or why did the Musas hang your Lira among the stars?/ Under this constellation, this summer, we live thoughtful.”
The present and the first, both are the classic poetry of Ritsos: let’s go through this anthology where epic stories and lactone poems cross. We have been condensed for centuries and seconds.
Ihes plana
Agustín Ferrer Casas
Itzulpena: Miel A. Elustondo
Harriet, 2024
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1936ko azaroaren 16an Kondor legioko hegazkinek Madrilgo zenbait museori egin zieten eraso. Eta horixe bera da liburu honetara... [+]
Etxe bat norberarena
Yolanda Arrieta
Alberdania, 2024
Gogotsu heldu diot irakurketari. Yolanda Arrietaren obra aski ezaguna zait eta iragan maiatzean argitaratu zuen proposamen honetan murgiltzeko tartea izan dut,... [+]
Rosvita. Teatro-lanak
Enara San Juan Manso
UEU / EHU, 2024
Enara San Juanek UEUrekin latinetik euskarara ekarri ditu X. mendeko moja alemana zen Rosvitaren teatro-lanak. Gandersheimeko abadian bizi zen idazlea zen... [+]
Idazketa labana bat da
Annie Ernaux
Itzulpena: Leire Lakasta
Katakrak, 2024
Decisive seconds
Manu López Gaseni
Beste, 2024
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You start reading this short novel and you feel trapped, and in that it has to do with the intense and fast pace set by the writer. In the first ten pages we will find out... [+]
When the dragon swallowed the
sun Aksinja Kermauner
Alberdania, 2024
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Puntobobo
Itxaso Martin Zapirain
Sowing, 2024
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The title and cover image (Puntobobo, Wool Bite and Rag Doll) will suggest mental health, making the point and childhood, but more patches will be rolled up as the book... [+]
Itsasoa bete urre
Dani Martirena
Irudiak: Ana Ibañez
Txalaparta, 2022
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Liburu honetara barneratzen den irakurleak sentsazio ugari izango ditu. Deigarria da azaleko letren urre kolorea eta zuritasuna, goialdean ageri den... [+]
Migranteak
Issa watanabe
1545 argitaletxea, 2024
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Ezagutzen ez nuen 1545 argitaletxeak 2024an itzuli eta kaleratu du Issa Watanaberen Migranteak liburua. Animalia talde batek egiten duen migrazio prozesua kontatzen du; eta... [+]
Adania
Shibli
Translation: Aitor Blanco Leoz
Igela, 2024
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During these days, an Israeli soldier is bombarding hospitals, schools, Palestinian refugee camps with drones as if it were a video game, while in the West we see on... [+]
Fun Home. A tragic family
history Alison Bechdel
Txalaparta, 2024
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Fun Home. Alison Bechdel is known for the first publication of the graphic novel A Tragic Family Story (2006), although he himself participated in several... [+]
PLEIBAK
Miren Amuriza Plaza
Susa, 2024
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Susa has published Miren Amuriza's second novel in the atrium of the Durango Fair: Plead. It's plebiscites because you're singing about an earlier recording. Berria includes the... [+]
Book Non sense
Edward Lear
Translation: Juan Kruz Igerabide
Denonartean, 2024
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The writer and illustrator Edward Lear published this work in 1846. As Igerabide says in the prologue of the book, “nonsense humor, absurd... [+]
Hetero
Uxue Alberdi
Susa, 2024
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In the era of negationism, the manosphere and trolls, the contribution of literature is essential, because it is an exceptional instrument to look at the folds of reality: the situations... [+]
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... [+]