Without saying, wrongly, word abuse.
Dog barking
Iñaki Irazu
Susa, 2023
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The latest edition of Iñaki Irazu (Asteasu, 1954), in black and white, has a blurry cover. However, the footprint of a road is visible on the ground: without direction marks we cannot know if we get here and look back or, following it, the conjecture that indicates reaching somewhere. This post, second in the trajectory of the Asteasuarra, is, as the first, an invitation to the transit of memory, composed by the poem Hegei, called Zakur zaunka (Susa, 2023), twenty fortifications for those who cast a refuge in memory.
Civil War and post-war are the axes of the collection: The Martutene prison, the stables, the Civil Government of San Sebastian, the palaces of Neguri, the Salburua tent, the margins of cemeteries and slaughterhouses, etc., can be found on the proposed route. In places where the present is related to the past, the poet gathers strong images: heaps of herbs perforated with lattice, stickers swallowed, a claw resting on the neck... Some have red heat, others have metal cold. In addition to those that can awaken the sensory memory of the non-living, the importance that the poet attaches to the word is interesting: The poem is a clear exponent of this during dinner.
The latter directly influences the formal composition of the collection. In fact, we could say that Irazu has worked as a collector of stories everywhere: he has captured in the book the words of others and even the expressions of others, as well as those that will be known by the reader in the poem A red key. With this, therefore, in poems other brands of people predominate in comparison to the poetic self, since they contain certain testimonies with narrative tints. In general, the voices and echoes of the place trace the silence associated with the roughness of the lived, the repression suffered and the pain felt.
Besides resembling the way back and forth, memory resembles the reflection of sound. Apparently, the necessary margin is essential for the sounds produced at some point before the echo to be audible for us: “Walking on the mountain / road, / to grab us / powerless / ear / remote bark / old dog”. These words serve to gradually approximate the past as this interval increases.
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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30 years ago Patxi Zubizarreta published the book Marigoringoak hegan; J. M. Illustrated by Lavarello and by the hand of the Catalan publisher... [+]
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... [+]