Crossed and committed looks
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 1976) and because it represents with a rigorous view the Barcelona of that time, in which the socioeconomic and political aspects are reflected. On the other hand, because it brings us the story of a family, with the lights and shadows of the members of several generations, but above all the characters that we know from an external view, because it allows us to listen to them from the inner voice, forcing us to relocate our gaze.
Natàlia Miralpeix, after twelve years living in France and England, returns to Barcelona. When the Franco dictatorship arrested Julián Grimau in 1962 and was shot the following year, Salvador Puig Antich re-executed him in 1974. His bourgeois families lived in convulsive times and are between the end of the regime and the promise of freer times, such as pueden.El title was taken from a poetry by
Jean-Baptiste Clément, a song related to the Paris Commune, but the theme can also be the nostalgia for love and happiness. In this novel, we recall the flourishing of childhood and youth and regret the decline of maturity and the vejez.El political commitment is also very present, but it is presented
in a conflictive and not idealized way. In a “good” family there are Catalanism, anarchism, anti-Franco and feminism, and the relations that the protagonist maintains with the working class and with the poor are also raw.
I very much liked, among other things, the homoerotic passages that are described with the desire to live sexuality in freedom, either between ‘hetero’ men, or between ‘hetero’ women; also the part in which the manifestation and detention are counted; or to what extent life can condition the mourning of the most intimate murdered people.
The author was a journalist and the protagonist photographer. On these pages we have the analytical look of the two, which tells us what the rocks and the sunny ones hide on the cover of the book to understand a time of change.
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 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... [+]
The proximity to the Sun has modified the speed of the Earth in its circumvalation movement. However, there are other speeds, and it seems that the speed of the earth is getting faster and faster, or at least the changes are constant. In this situation, it is necessary to... [+]
"Diversity" in teaching is a well-known concept, and teachers (you won't be surprised to know that in the Bestiak library there are also teachers) try to make heterogeneous groups of students to ensure diversity. But do we have tools to not perpetuate the oppression between... [+]
Fears in the
air Aitor Arana
Ibaizabal, 2023
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There are seven stories that make up this book for young people written by Aitor Arana. Arana’s production is plentiful and well-known; he has written over 125 books, some... [+]
Raise the dead!
Fred Vargas
Txalaparta, 2024
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From day to day, what has happened has happened in a few hours: a tree appears in the garden of Sophia. One beech. This principle includes the first pages of the book. This... [+]