Distant nuts
Zomorrotu
Aintzane Usandizaga
Txalaparta, 2023
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Zomorrotu is the second collection of adult stories edited by Aintzane Usandizaga. Page 77 explains what a bicheus is: what happens “after having been fascinated by someone”, losing interest, getting bored, becoming everyday. However, the cover illustration of Pili Aguado’s book brings us another reading: a person half-shows the naked face that appears when lifting his costume or mask. Because that's what we're going to find in this book. People, lifestyles, relationships or jobs idealized by some characters will lose shine and suddenly appear with lights and shadows.
These are five long narratives, divided into sections, in which some characters appear in more than one story. Alternatively, they will be first-, second- or third-class characters. The story of Mai and Maddalen is perhaps the one with the most centrality, and I've been eager to know more about Ojo. That's why I think it's not a novel, because to do so, we need to develop more networks between characters and the threads of stories.
Achilles and The best we could do are the most rounded. Simmer until the final blow. As we move forward in life, we can see how easy it can fall or, if you will, how we could knock it down. Moreover, these texts allow us to reflect on the family and work, two areas and networks of relationships that are basic pillars in our society. These stories also give us time to reflect on affective sexual relations and friendship, as the author provides a series of situations that occur in youth and maturity, and between these two ages.
Reading L I have enjoyed the good humor of the author and some of his images, such as strips and two between the protagonist and the teacher of the self-school.
But the most interesting thing is the bicheus or fall of the costume on the leaves. What to do when personal vulnerability appears? After realizing your old fantasy? When you meet the person you admire? If the opportunity comes to fulfill dreams? When do you keep the wheel of your life?
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... [+]
