Kris, kris, kris... If you scratch the title, Ana Malagón selects the formulas extracted from the daily interviews: Lasai, nothing happens (2014), Stop with us (2017) and I don't know what you're talking about (2021). They say one thing and they say another. Because reality has layers and hides wounds, gaps and difficulties for those who don't want or can't look.
Kris, kris, kris... Scratching the image of the skin comes to the head The hole. They both remind us that we are alone and that we have to move forward. In these narratives, the Greek narrative voice with nails the first layers of the family, relationships between partners, the labor world and education. Malagón, immersed in the fourth decade of life, has as raw material in fifteen stories the distribution, precariousness, loneliness and losses of this time. So I know what Ana is talking about: the blows of life, the grief and the need to rise again. But humor gives us, acid, just around the corner, accompanying us.
We follow the soundtrack of the book Kris, kris, kris... The playlist starts with the song Agur Jesusen (Ana comes to my head) and ends with There is a light that never goes out (The Smith). In his three books, music influences both form and content, until he becomes another character.
Kris, kris, kris... The structure is shown below. It started with the microstories in the first collection, with long stories, and the texts have gradually spread, until they reach an extension of about five pages in the last work. However, consistency and intensity are the characteristics of Malagón's texts; I have found here and there remarkable paragraphs, since in five lines the author begins to sew a set of characters, environments and stings: “Then we realized that the show is over, that our aunt is in the hole and we are in a
well.” Kris, kris, kris... I particularly liked the stories that reflect on the affective links (Axola, but to the extent; the nearby family), that dare to the mother-daughter relationship (Night shift; Pain), and that combine precariousness and absurdity (Emergency Service; Cloister).
Kris, kris, kris... A book for those who want to take the varnish off daily with their fingernails and check what's behind it.
-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... [+]
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Louisa
Yiusfi
Txalaparta, 2023
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In 2022, Louisa Yousfi published Rester barbare, and Itziar Diez de Ultzurrun and Txalaparta published it in Basque in 2023, following the words of Ainhoa Nadia Douhaibi. He had not insisted so... [+]
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... [+]
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It all started on a field trip with her cousin and her husband. They went to dinner and didn't go home. The protagonist went out to look for them and found a wall. From there, the wall does not let him move forward and sees two characters frozen as dead. Beyond the wall death... [+]
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They bring home the snails, like a rolled backpack, transporting those who need to live. However, houses can be scratched and divided into two. They even double from time to time, though provisionally, from strength to burden. Ane Labaka Mayoz (Lasarte-Oria, 1992) dedicates the... [+]
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