Miscellaneous
These days I have read the book Thirce by Luisa Carnés, recently published by Erein. Carnés was born in Madrid in 1905. The author experienced a great paradigm shift in history during his life: the rise of the vanguard, the achievements of the second republic, civil war and post-war, among others.
In the introduction written by editor Uxue Razquin Olazaran mentions four sections. Here we will not have enough lines to refer to all stories, so we will cite one for each section and thus leave the hunger of others.
The story that opens the book is the Tram. The shorter story shows us one of the cutting-edge features: it places the characters in a modern transport tram, in a space where the city and speed come together. The nun and modernity, the passion and freedom represented by tradition and the old ways are used to represent “two Spain”, which manages to keep the reader intriguing in the hope of what will happen.
Among the stories of the Republican era, I would like to mention ugly woman. It's an example of romantic love, a story of an imbalanced couple. In the face of other life projects, Benita, who has believed it to be ugly and not worth a husband, prioritizes the project of couple and family, and Faustino takes advantage of the power she gives to marry him for comfort. Carnés denounces in narration against the hegemonic model of couple, with a thin pen and a descriptive report.
The next chapter is composed of texts written during war and post-war. The most special thing has seemed to me to be El Salvador. The story begins with the question, who was it? The incarcerated character looks for the whistleblower and the author manages the intrigue well. It is a circular text consisting of internal dialogues and monologues.
The family album is from the Mexican era, from exile. The story starts when Luistxo discovers that the woman she liked on the bus goes home. Once at home the mother and lady are watching the family album, the author brings us a scene full of complicity and intimacy. The adolescent feels embarrassment and discomfort with a growing tone.
Among those working on international issues, and to conclude, I would highlight the time of planting. It is still too topical. It uses an unusual narrative voice, as it uses the first plural person. The story takes the form of a manifesto, written on behalf of mothers for peace.
It's a great translation of Sarriugarte. Performed with taste and mime and full of admiration by the author. Knowledge and reading.
-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... [+]
Under the title of Viriditas we can read the subtitle of The Women Who Made Us See the Wonderful World of Plants. This is a great book with a hard lid, in which the illustrations of the plants and a woman take the center of the lilac cover. You can see the approximate content of... [+]
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... [+]
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... [+]
The report of a Basque cow was published by Bernardo Atxaga in 1991. The book has had a long history and success in both Basque and other languages. One of Germany's best-selling books was J. The British editor Eccleshare considered it a work to be read in the early years in... [+]
Spring is usually a promise of a cold winter nose that can come after the landing, and has been annotated several times for sleep. Promise, however, is never a safe spring in a ruined terrain. Not at least if we are talking about change or, in particular, revolution. Maddi... [+]
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... [+]
Do you consider yourself a feminist and anti-racist? Have you ever thought that the history of feminism you know is white and colonialist? Have you questioned your knowledge or your view of non-white cultures? Have you made a critical reading of feminist empowerment? Do you want... [+]
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... [+]
The sound of the door was heard while they were having dinner. The stars of the sky said the sabbata was ripe,” thus begins this short novel by Gaizka Arostegi, when Gestapo's "dogs" touch Sara's home door and her parents. As the reader would conclude, this is a novel set in the... [+]
We opened the poems book by Oihana Jaka and found two deals. One father and another son. It is worth noting for its direct relationship with the poems we will find. The book is structured in three parts:
Hamaika urte, Hamaika hilabete eta Hamaika egun. Number eleven is also... [+]
Karmele Mitxelena published in this Xaguxar collection the story The Summer of Fresa in 2022. It narrated the summer adventures of some boys and girls. Now, instead, Aitona Flora's book is a much more interiorized, exciting story narrated from the point of view of the protagonist... [+]