Of life
- Life is an unsafe path. There's nothing sure we know, if there's knowledge. As we were born, we will all die. But we live on the back of that evidence in Western cultures. The oral literatures are the literary spaces that have received information about death, funeral celebrations, the deceased, post-mortal care. Examples of this are the texts or books of different cultures that have come to us in writing: the book of life and death of the Tibetans, the book of the Dead of Egypt and others. They include the wisdom of the millennium, testimony of an oral transmission and of man's action. They mix examples of care that make us interdependent, the magic of helping someone's last moments, the questions and doubts of the dying, the possibility of having a last sacred trip or the reflections that life generates. In them death is compared with transformation and alchemy, with cyclicity.
Elisabeth Kluber Ross studied medicine and, unlike other doctors, saw the need to help her complete her and help her die. He made important contributions in the construction of the current form of palliative care and with what he observed and learned in his work published in 1969 the book On Death & Dying. His success led him to study and write about death. In addition, he continued to work to help patients and family members die, expanding and modifying their view on the subject.
I'd like to introduce the following book: the autobiographical account of the daughter who loses her mother. In her book Ritual of Mourning, Isabel de Naveran narrates the process of death of a woman who chooses death by suffering from a degenerative disease. The situation of grief makes us change the sensitivity; we look at details until then unconscious, we see things that we would not look at, encourages us to have clear dreams ... The author writes from this emotional space that is grief, with a sensitive and respectful tone, sewing with words an emotional process. In this case, daily care, contradictions and routines intertwine with dreams, giving way to reason as well as unconscious. The reader has the privilege of reading (and representing) how they do the book and accompanying in the process of death. The text shows beauty. The light is soft and warm and picks up the reading. Love picks up a dead person but who is still going to be among them for a few hours. It's very human.
I don't want to believe it's about killing oneself / we can't admit that here / - and the red goalkeeper - was to kill. What you've read is part of the poem book Itsaso kontra bat. Written by the author in the months before death and published after death. These lines focus on the doubts and questions generated in the last hour. Fears. The poem goes on like this. Personal time / arrival, / hour... / a fear. / What fear?/ like the love loves of love left here / the need to make them suffer. It's a raw book, full of images, with the strength of a often beaten sea, which is like a sea against it. A living book about death.
On the other hand, in the Tale of the Bank of Oihane Amantegi, the deceased is a newborn child and the narrative voice is of his twin sister: And so in early March of the following year, when the river overflowed, I was born with my twin sister. The twins, the same, the mirror, the nose of the mouth and nose, the hands and navel of the navel, one after the other, but death first appeared, alive and then mortal. The book speaks of emptiness, pain and mourning that leads to the premature death of the daughter of one and the sister of the other. It flexibilizes life and the limits of death, uses the inner world of the protagonist, imagination and fantasy to fill his sister's absence and presence. As Idoia Asurmendi sings the game of armchairs in the song: And how much you can occupy something that isn't there ...
As we have seen, the subject gives a lot, and there are many books that talk about death. I've made a personal selection here, it's a sample. Although they could be other books, the selected ones are those mentioned.
As for children and youth literature, in the boat of the Grandfather of Mariasun Landa, Jakes and Tim Bowley and Natalie Pudalov, the song of Idoia Garzes and Belatz Kua, Hili de Uxue Alberdi or the brothers León Corazón de Astrid Lindgren are some of the topics discussed. Full of beautiful metaphors, full of existentialist and philosophical questions, including a book of adventures... Through these proposals we will be able to address death from different places, forms and looks. As for pitch, we will also find diversity and wealth: some are exciting, others invite us to reflect and we will discover humor. For each reader to choose according to their taste, choice and time.
The Night of Souls, Gaba Baltza, All Saints, Halloween or Shamain. The night from 31 October to 1 November is between the fall equinox and the winter solstice. The days start to cut and the darkness starts to take over. Winter is nearby. The bear falls asleep. Trees, forests have been naked by the wind. Silence has prevailed. Birds fly in search of warmer places.
The souls of the dead also address their original homes. But you see the plastic pumpkins? Will our dead know that Halloween is the day of their return? Will our children understand something when they say “wedge or prize”? Josu Ozaita and Jaime Altuna in the book The Rebirth of Pumpkins Off, Josu Ozaita and Jaime Altuna perfectly depict the development and tradition of this day in Euskal Herria and in an interview made by the anthropologist Oier Araolaza for Barren magazine, which in Euskal Herria drank the pumpkins, candles, candles and babies. It proposes a beautiful verbal formula closer to our tradition: Give candy to us. So that our months find their way home in the absence of real pumpkins.
Please note: The story that is being told here is a story based on reality. Some fragments are fictitious by a creative process. However, in defense of the historical memory, the names and surnames and other data that appear are true.
The skin is bathed in sweat by the woman... [+]
Xabier Zabaltza Perez-Nievas historialaria, idazlea eta EHUko irakasleak 'Euskal Herria heterodoxiatik' izeneko liburua plazaratu berri du. Bertan dio Euskal Herria ezinbestean euskara eta euskal kulturaren bidez eraiki behar dela eta horretarako funtsezkoa dela euskara... [+]
I always wear a camera on top, without a case in the bag to pull it out under any pretext. I have spent the last year photographing everything, to the extent that my academic and political leitmotiv has no free time, as if in the wild frenzy something had been immortalized. It... [+]
My brother, following the stereotypes of his age, threw me one of those curious questions. “Where have the umbrellas entered?” I had to answer, I don’t know, I don’t know who has led them. Then my brother, as quickly as he throws himself, asked me: “Who stole the... [+]
-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... [+]
"Euskara eta euskal literatura, programaketatik ikasgelara" jardunaldian parte hartu zuen Katixa Dolhare Zaldunbidek. Seaskak eta UEUk antolatu Udako Ikastaroen barne. Bere problematikak horiek ziren: Zer leku du literaturak hezkuntza programetan eta nola landu euskal... [+]
Despite the fact that two centuries have passed, the problem of La Plutónica cannot be allowed to fade in the well of oblivion. In addition to 200 years ago to learn about the history of La Plutónica, we must go back to the other side of the ocean, Montevideo.
The brothers... [+]
Distinguishing fleeting stars from aircraft lights is not an easy task. It is a job that can only be done on the nights that give away the long summer days.
I just started the summer and with the full backpack I took a step outside the door of my house, to be two weeks caring... [+]
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... [+]
