Greetings and meetings
Irati Elorrieta embodies the travelling characters in the novel Neguko argiak (Pamiela, 2018), written in Basque and Spanish. Most characters are characters accustomed to displacement, who have crossed in a city other than their birthplace, Berlin. Añes and Marta are the two main protagonists, who are dedicated to urban circulation in many ways: both by the transfer of their residence from one city to another (from Paris to Berlin), and by the incorporation into the urban geography, which moves their bowels, until they join the marginal corners of the city, until they camouflage into an urban environment. They also walk through the corners of memory, especially Añes: landscapes also become timelines, depositing traces of the past.
Although the friendship of Añes and Marta is one of the main layers of the novel, it is a literary world built with very varied layers, one of the greatest contributions of the novel, in my view, is that it brings you in a very subtle, gradual way, to the personality and concerns of the protagonists.
The novel has built a wide network of characters per layers, but most of the nodes in the network have been built in the relationships between two people: Añes-Marta, Añes-Bruno, Marta Martín, Añes-Esteban, Añes-Xuan, Xuan, Claire, etc. All these knots are completed, interacted, to the point of representing a map of relations with nuances. The identities of the characters are constructed through the eyes of others, are beaten by the voices of others, and precisely those mirror and voice games are the center of the narrative architecture of the novel.
This affective map is built through short pieces. At first reading, when I looked at the index, I was shocked by the titles of the short pieces, sometimes believing that they were too explicit, sometimes too symbolic, and I was given the feeling that I wasn't entirely right with the titles of the sections. As I delved into the novel, as the layers were torn apart, I thought that this trend of titles could also represent the conflict of the two main characters, as in that maze of affections, the beauty and the pain, the accuracy and the hallucination, the real and the simulated, the alive and the dead are played out.
Idazketa labana bat da
Annie Ernaux
Itzulpena: Leire Lakasta
Katakrak, 2024
Decisive seconds
Manu López Gaseni
Beste, 2024
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When the dragon swallowed the
sun Aksinja Kermauner
Alberdania, 2024
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Puntobobo
Itxaso Martin Zapirain
Sowing, 2024
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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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Adania
Shibli
Translation: Aitor Blanco Leoz
Igela, 2024
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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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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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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... [+]