Narrative in Spanish: White Men, Fed Up Women
Paco Goyanes
Calamus (Zaragoza)
Reading is fishing, tempting, searching.
You look at the river, at the sea, and you see them full.
You throw the cane and climb a filthy shoe.
For a good hake, a lot of whitebait.
To the booksellers and booksellers that we are in the world, we are asked to act as good props, to advise on gear, baits and fishing grounds.
Poor violet scholars, who have made our sense of smell and the reading of back covers quite a trade.
Come on, you have to dare.
Valentin Roma always leaves a good taste, who with
The Symbolic Capitalist
(Peripheral) closes the trilogy that began with
Lenin's Nurse
and
Portrait of the Teenage Soccer Player
.
Roma not only gives excellent titles to his books, it also entertains and catches talking about the working class, declassification and the amazing Spain of the 90s: a genuine
Martin Eden
and (almost) happy ending.
Cauterio
(Anagram) is a good fish, a great fish, Lucía Lijtmaer denomination of origin: two parallel stories separated by four centuries, whose protagonists face the pain and violence that politics and religion exert on their status as women.
A rare delicacy:
El Plagio
, by Daniel Jiménez (Nuggets).
What could have been a conventional journalistic denunciation, becomes a wonderful
family
novel in the wake of the stories of children and parents so fashionable in current literature.
In the wake, yes, but much better: delicate, interesting, beautiful and without pathetic bullshit.
give me two
From its cover you sense that
The Last White Man
, the last book by Nuria Labari, will have some thorn to be careful with.
A forty-year-old who has succeeded in life and in business insists on remembering how he had to behave like an unscrupulous macho to reach the top, the abyss.
Thinking about our sexual roles, delving into our deep identity, seems and is an obsession of (good) contemporary literature and therefore of Rafa Cervera, a Valencian author who loves rock and roll and good stories:
Song for big men
(Jekyll & Jill) forces you, without pressure, in a natural way, to meditate on love, pleasure, old age and freedom.
This last sentence is from its back cover, what the hell, it tells it very well.
How many books, how many hours of fishing, will go down in the history of literature, in the canon of the future?
Mystery.
The Arca publishing house gives us the reissue of an important and strangely forgotten work:
The novel of a writer
, by Rafael Cansinos Assens, a "pseudonovela" that deserved praise from Francisco Ayala in its day and that helps us understand what José- Carlos Mainer called it the "silver age" of Spanish literature.
Let's keep fishing.
There are many abyssal trenches to discover.
Latin American Narrative: Bodies and Dystopias
Sofia Balbuena
The Combed Can (Barcelona and Madrid)
You glow in the dark
(Foam Pages).
In Liliana Colanzi's stories we once again find solvency in each story and at the same time a composition that evokes a whole.
The commitment to the present, but also to the debts inherited and those that, as a generation, we are building.
Dystopia, speculation, imagination, in short, is determined by everything that came before us and we have forgotten or destroyed.
The animal siege
(Almadía), Vanessa Londoño.
From the Colombian jungle, the multiple is presented as the inevitable consequence of the break, the mutilation, the rupture of one's own body, but also of the social body.
In order to narrate horror or survive it, a certain amount of beauty is needed, and this is what it seems to want to tell us.
The inner sea
(Stealth), Matías Capelli.
Matías Capelli's second novel tells the story of Milton, an Argentine journalist who settles in Amsterdam.
In line with the tone that brings together some of the most important Latin American novels of recent times
(Los llanos,
by Federico Falco;
Chilean Poet,
by Alejandro Zambra, or
The Third Paradise,
by Cristian Alarcón), this book composes from the register of at least a treaty on the condition of foreigners and the possibility of finding a kind of liberation there.
The reissues of Manuel Puig in Seix Barral, for example,
Painted mouths
.
He is one of those writers who proposed a narrative made of the popular, of multiple registers in which other imaginaries other than the heteronormative and canonical ones were also configured.
The cinema, the infinite dialogues, the epistle and the footnote: all this that today is configured as the possibility in literature, was already in Puig.
Translated narrative: In the best families
Star Garcia
Oletvm (Valladolid)
The singing school
(Sixth Floor).
Nell Leyson.
The story of an illiterate girl who in 1573 lives on a farm in a miserable situation.
One day she goes to the market and discovers that her desire is to sing and she pretends to be a boy to enter the singing school.
It is a moving story about the power of knowledge.
Adults
(Nordic books).
Marie Aubert.
A short novel that is a fragment of the life of a normal family and from which we can all surely extract some valuable reflection.
There is a family reunion to celebrate the mother's 65th birthday and the rivalry between the sisters, envy, motherhood, jealousy, the need for acceptance...
Good luck
(Asteroid Books).
Nicholas Butler.
Three friends who work together in their modest construction company are commissioned to build a spectacular house in the middle of nature and will receive a huge bonus if they manage to meet an impossible deadline.
But what seemed like an incredible stroke of luck can turn out to be his undoing.
Highlight the
thriller touch,
the dizzying pace and the analysis of the human nature of each of the characters.
Faces in the water
(Trotalibros).
Janet Frame.
A story based on the author's experiences during the time she was interned in different psychiatric institutions.
As she was about to be lobotomized, she won one of New Zealand's top literary awards, and her writing literally saved her life.
She went to England and her psychiatrist recommended that she write her story, which gave rise to this harsh and beautiful novel.
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Philosophy: Think cancellation, evil and music
Almudena Amador
Ramon Llull (Valencia)
Fictions, the fair ones
(Contraband) is a collective work —lucid, clear and very pertinent— coordinated by Jesús García Cívico that approaches the new sensitivity and culture of cancellation (to its possibilities as a legitimate corrective resource or its consequences on freedom of expression and of creation) from disciplines such as cinema, music and pornography.
With texts by Ana Valero, Eva Peydró, Carlos Pérez de Ziriza and García Cívico himself.
in
Saying Evil
(Galaxia Gutenber), Ana Carrasco Conde proposes an approach to evil, its origin and nature, in dialogue with the philosophical tradition.
With poetic language and literary references, the book explores the idea of harm, evil and pain throughout the history of Western thought and proposes a new perspective by focusing on the internal dynamics and logics that sustain us and could change.
After reading
Sound Art
(Anagram), the rigorous essay by Santiago Auserón, we can determine that in culture and education, from the Minoan era to the stage of classical Greece, music played a determining role.
Through the works of Homer, Archilochus or Hesiod, among others, and the studies carried out by some of the most important philosophers of our time such as Bergson, Gilles Deleuze or Lévi-Strauss, Auserón stimulates the reader by entering him into a wide cultural universe .
In the
Portable Philosophy Manual
,
recently reissued by Galaxia Gutenberg, Juan Arnau makes a lucid review of the ideas and biographies of different philosophers of history.
A journey against the current that covers 25 centuries in reverse, from the 20th century of Lévi-Strauss to the classical Greece of Heraclitus.
Economy: Failure is measured with money
Francisco Lemus
Lemus (Tenerife)
Economic Structure of Spain - 2022
, 26th revised and updated edition of the JdeJ Editores publishing house.
From the famous author Ramón Tamames and Antonio Rueda.
It is a reference work on the Spanish economy and a basic teaching text.
In this indispensable edition for anyone interested in the subject, there is updated statistical information that will give us an idea of the current panorama of the Spanish economy in the world context.
What's wrong with the economy?
,
by Professor of Political Economy Robert Skidelsky and edited by Deusto, offers us an insightful critique of practice and methodology in current economics with an entertaining approach that will make us understand economics as a sum of disciplines beyond the numbers that They encompass philosophy, politics, and history.
Invest according to Benjamin Graham
,
published by Deusto.
This is a collection of the early writings (from 1917 to 1927) of the father of value investing and a great financial genius.
This work acquires greater importance and interest in this moment in which we find ourselves since the markets are currently in a similar state to the one that Graham lived in his youth.
Principles to face the new world order.
Why countries succeed and fail
,
by Ray Dalio and published by Deusto.
Dalio describes the rise and fall of the great empires and gives us clues as to what awaits us, presenting us with a history that repeats itself like a Great Cycle and whose study serves as a map of the economic and social future of the world scene.
Biographies and memoirs: Lives on the warpath
Alvaro Munoz and Cristina Sanmamed
The Tannhäuser Gate (Plasencia)
Pasolini.
The Last Prophet
(Tusquets) is the biography of the poet and director Pier Paolo Pasolini.
He was one of the great intellectuals of the 20th century, he combined his work as a filmmaker during the fifties of the last century writing valuable texts denouncing injustices and social inequalities.
Philip Roth, the biography
(Debate), written by Blake Bailey, traces the life of the novelist and biographer from his childhood to maturity.
Through interviews with family, friends and lovers, we discover a less distant, more human Roth.
Private conversations with the author make us understand the positions and paths he took throughout his life, including his marriage to actress Claire Bloom.
Life of Barbara Loden
(Sixth Floor) is a small and beautiful book that arose from a commission that Nathalie Léger was given to write a biography about the filmmaker.
Unable to shape the book, she immersed herself in Loden's life starting with the lead in the only film she directed,
Wanda
.
Testament of Youth
(Peripheral / Errata Naturae) is a huge and necessary book.
Vera Brittain took almost 20 years to write it.
It could be a hybrid between essay, biography and novel.
It is the story of two women who survive World War I.
One works in a paper factory in a small provincial town and the other is a nurse on the front lines.
As her friends die or escape death in the trenches, Brittain is clear that she must write so that the memory of her loved ones will never be forgotten.
It was a resounding success at the time.
Virginia Woolf admitted that she stayed up all night reading it.
Poetry: Everyday Revelations
Lola Larumbe
Rafael Alberti Bookstore (Madrid)
a time of grace
(Pre-Texts).
Esperanza Lopez Parada.
Perhaps the best book of poems by this poet from Madrid.
An achingly beautiful book dealing with life and death, fate and consolation.
The revealing power of poetry, as a spell before the disappearance of those we have loved, can reconstruct a time of misfortune in
A time of grace:
“How is it that in drought they are born / without stain and without sin / fleshy flowers of the desert".
Blue the water
(The Beautiful Warsaw).
Amalie Baptist.
This book will reach our hands during the course of the fair.
We have had to wait more than seven years to be able to read the new poems by Amalia Bautista, the poet of everyday clarity and rebellion.
The concise and illuminating word to illuminate our shadows, the weight of the heart, fear, fever or mistakes like sand castles.
the ghost planets
(Tusquets).
Rose Berbel.
Astrophysics calls ghost planets those planets for which there is scientific evidence of their existence but they are not detectable with the observation instruments available today.
This enigma runs through the poems of the new book by the author of
Girls always tell the truth,
creating a disturbing beauty: "Emotions create realities / There are places that exist only for us, because they have been named on purpose."
And finally, let's not forget the poet Pasolini in the centenary year of his birth:
Marvelous and miserable city.
Roman Poems
(Ultramarinos Editorial) and
the insomniac happiness.
Poetic Anthology
(Gutenberg Galaxy).
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History: The war, the return to the darker side
Antonio Ramirez
The MUHBA Headquarters (Barcelona)
Like a Russian tank rolling through the streets of kyiv, the darkest side of 20th-century history returns today.
Eighty years ago, the region in which this war is taking place today was the scene of the confrontation between the two most brutal dictators, Hitler and Stalin.
Staunch enemies, both shared certain traits: the massive use of violence and terror against the civilian population, megalomaniac visions of the future.
This is masterfully explained by Laurence Rees in
Hitler and Stalin.
Two dictators and the second world war
(Criticism), a synthesis narrated in an agile and rigorous way.
Some qualities it shares with
Leningrad
(Debate), by Anna Reid;
Far from being a chronicle of the military or of the heroic resistance, it focuses on the experiences of the inhabitants of the besieged city: the horror, the hunger, the exasperation with the Bolshevik regime.
In contrast, the city of Lvov-Lemberg-Lviv, evoked by the Polish writer Józef Wittlin in
My Leópolis
(Leaves of Grass), synthesizes the richness of the cultural history of Eastern Europe: capital of Austrian Galicia, at the end of the World War I passed into Polish hands to be later violently occupied by the Nazis.
That the word and the truth are among the first victims of a war proves it
I want to bear witness until the end
(Galaxia Gutenberg), an anthology of the diaries of Victor Klemperer, a professor of Philology of Jewish origin who survived National Socialism hidden in a basement in Dresden;
From there he carried out a detailed analysis of the mutations of the Nazi language and how it permeated all aspects of daily life in his time.
Essay: Trans, animalism and counterculture
Charles Acevedo
Finestres Bookstore (Barcelona)
It is common to hear that the horizon of possibilities for life is narrowing and that any proposal for change will be insufficient;
however, it is thought and written with the will to make life possible.
Let's fix the world.
Humans, animals, nature
(Ned Ediciones), by Corine Pelluchon, collects articles that speak of animalism, ethics and care, and advocates building and unlocking the necessary alliances to change our practices.
Less conciliatory is
Trans degenerates end the family
(Kaótica Libros), a book edited by Ira Hybris, with a prologue by Holly Lewis, which proposes to abolish the neoliberal regime, which is why the belligerence of this set of key texts for trans-revolutionary movements and their promotion of political practices invites us to understand the trans as a step from the imaginary to the real and that insists on the question of how to live together.
In
How to Kill Death.
Agustín García Calvo and the philosophy of the counterculture
(La Oveja Roja), by Jordi Carmona Hurtado, we find a passionate reading that proposes to rescue an anarchist and with him understand thought as a way of doing that admits spaces for happiness.
Finally, a recent reissue,
The Uses of Literacy.
A portrait of working class life
(Captain Swing), by Richard Hoggart, a classic that underlines that history read from cultural criticism and social analysis allows us to understand where we are, where we come from and speculate where we want to go.
Science: Gender diversity and a world without God
Maria Jose Porras
Picasso Bookstores (Granada)
A Series of Fortunate Events
(Debate), by Sean B. Carroll, confronts us with one of the fundamental questions in the history of science: do things happen for a reason or are they the result of chance?
Scientists, philosophers and theologians have pondered this question for centuries, but it has not been until today that scientific discoveries have provided an answer: we live in a world where randomness reigns.
This essay is an amazing exploration of chance as the source of all the beauty and diversity in the world.
Around the world in 80 trees
(Blume).
It is a wonderful book in which, through the biography of 80 species, Jonathan Drori shows us the fundamental role that trees play not only in our lives, but also in life as a whole.
Each of the stories is illustrated by Lucille Clerc.
Thus, the reader can enjoy a journey as beautiful as it is revealing.
The rainbow of evolution
(Captain Swing).
Magnificent study that, questioning scientific, medical and social concepts, leads the reader through a fascinating discussion about gender diversity and both animal and human sexuality.
Joan Roughgarden explains to us how this diversity develops from the action of genes and hormones, revolutionizing our understanding of sex, gender and sexuality.
The mirage of God
(Espasa).
Richard Dawkins, through an analysis of all the scientific, philosophical and theological arguments that support religion, shows us the improbability of the existence of a supreme being: “Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies? among the foliage?
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Children: The art of being invisible and being able to tell
Eva Braojos
The Reader Worm (Seville)
Taking these
Magic Candies
(Kókinos publishing house), by the South Korean author Heena Baek, takes us to a unique environment where empathy is the protagonist.
Taking a step towards the other, understanding their point of view and daring to communicate are the keys to a more humane world.
The format of
the note
(editorial Kalandraka), by Pilar Serrano Burgos and Daniel Montero Galán (illustration), invites us to play.
The funny story of the flight of a note is a bet towards communication, good treatment and kindness in society.
And it is that, in one way or another, we are all connected.
Mateo… I don't see you!
(DiQue Sí publishing house), by Enrique Carlos Martín.
Mateo's neighbors are already fed up with his practical jokes.
So when Professor Tantalum offers him the chance to become invisible, he can't refuse.
Invisibility is the best thing that has happened to Mateo, but the scientist's dark plans make him change his mind.
A fun novel for readers from nine years old, full of humor and surprising situations.
The mornings of
The Numerozzi family
(Ediciones Ekaré), by Fernando Krahn, are full of surprises, but today's is even bigger: they are going to test the latest invention of the mother of the mice, who is an engineer.
Even little Octavia, who is always lazy, has changed her mind today.
What will the invention be and what will it be used for?
You will find out in this work by Fernando Krahn, published in 1977 and which Ediciones Ekaré has rescued.
Filled with everyday situations, it is ideal for early readers.
Juvenile: Wild lives, parallel lives, dry lives
mariola field
Gil Bookstore (Santander)
The distance between you and me
(Alfaguara) is a youth novel that surprises with its maturity.
Marina Gessner signs this adventure that takes place in the middle of nature.
Its protagonists, a girl named Mackenna and a boy named Sam, will enter a wild and unknown environment;
her to achieve her big dream, which is to cross the Appalachian Trail, and he, to flee from a difficult life without roots.
Inflection point
(Nocturna Ediciones). ¿Os imagináis vivir dos vidas en paralelo y ser conscientes de ello? Esta es la trama tan sugerente que nos presenta en su nueva novela Neal Shusterman, autor de Sed o Siega. Ash es un chico normal; su vida transcurre entre partidos de fútbol, los estudios y sus amigos, pero un día todo a su alrededor empieza a cambiar y lo que parecía ser de un color o forma, de repente, ya no lo es.Hija del guardián del fuego(Nube de Tinta). Daunis desciende de una tribu nativa americana; Jaime es nuevo en la ciudad y esconde un gran secreto. Juntos se ven inmersos en una investigación que amenaza la comunidad ojibwe y sus tradiciones. Angeline Boulley firma esta novela de misterio y amor que ya se ha convertido en todo un best seller a nivel mundial.
¡Vuela, abejorro! (Siruela) fue publicada originalmente en 1973 por la escritora alemana Christine Nöstlinger. La novela, de tinte autobiográfico, nos cuenta cómo transcurre la vida de una niña en las afueras de Viena en 1945 durante la guerra. La amistad que establece con un soldado ruso y las relaciones familiares son el eje de esta historia cargada de emotividad y esperanza.
Cómic: De la pandemia a los invasores de Marte
Aurelio Rodríguez
Librería Joker (Bilbao)
Javier Olivares y Santiago García, premios Nacional del Cómic 2015 por Las Meninas, dan una vuelta de tuerca a La guerra de los mundos (Astiberri), de H. G. Wells. El dibujo tan característico y visual de Olivares y la capacidad narrativa de García consiguen crear un relato estimulante e incómodo al enfrentar al lector a una nueva perspectiva de este gran clásico de la literatura.
Simon Hanselmann construye el relato más certero y conmovedor sobre cómo el confinamiento influyó para un cambio de comportamiento a escala mundial. Zona crítica (Fulgencio Pimentel) traza una pieza incómoda que retrata una sociedad, desnortada y carente de valores, que no sabe cómo puede dar sentido a su vida. El autor da rienda suelta a sus instintos, montando un puzle aterrador, con la presencia de todos sus personajes icónicos, mezclando las situaciones más bizarras con la melancolía presente en toda su obra.
Nick es un joven superficial y aburrido, bastante egocéntrico, y con una vida carente de emociones. Todo cambia al conocer a Wren, con la que mantiene una serie de encuentros casuales. Will McPhail recoge en IN. (Norma) un relato conmovedor sobre la vida, las relaciones familiares y el sentimiento de soledad. Una ópera prima con un humor sutil y elegante que utiliza un lenguaje narrativo sencillo y preciosista.
Mumin, las tiras completas de Tove Jansson (Salamandra Graphic) supone la recuperación de un clásico de las historietas infantiles de la polifacética autora finesa. Publicadas entre 1954 y 1959, son una serie de historias surrealistas y emotivas, protagonizadas por troles blancos con figuras similares a las de un hipopótamo, para niños de todas las edades.
Cine: Todas las películas que te quedan por ver
María Silveyro
Ocho y Medio (Madrid)
Este año celebramos dos centenarios, uno del director español Juan Antonio Bardem, otro del director italiano Pier Paolo Pasolini, ambos considerados como creadores “malditos”.
Y todavía sigue.Memorias de un hombre de cine(Cátedra). Juan Antonio Bardem. Edición de Carlos F. Heredero. Reeditadas a los 100 años de su nacimiento y 20 años después de su desaparición, estas memoria son indispensables para entender la historia del cine español de la segunda mitad del siglo XX y una visión de su propia experiencia vital.
Teorema (Altamarea). Pier Paolo Pasolini. Esta editorial independiente arriesga con la publicación de este texto de uno de los directores más polémicos del cine italiano. Pasolini hizo dos versiones de Teorema, la cinematográfica y esta escrita como una novela durante el rodaje de la película, que cuenta los conflictos de una familia burguesa que se desatan con la aparición de un enigmático personaje.
El canon del cine norteamericano. Volumen I(ASL Ediciones). F. Friedlander y Alfredo Villanueva. En una exhaustiva labor de recopilación, los autores, en este primer tomo que abarca desde los inicios del cine hasta el final de los cincuenta, realizan un recorrido a lo largo de la filmografía tanto de directores como de los principales intérpretes de cada una de las etapas, analizando brevemente cada título.
La guía FilmAffinity. Breve historia del cine (Nórdica Libros). Varios autores. Una obra de consulta indispensable para todo tipo de aficionados al cine que nos descubre múltiples títulos comentados y valorados en pocas líneas por ocho expertos.
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Arte: La creación tiene un precio político
Anxo Rabuñal
Novaniké Arts & Books (Santiago de Compostela)
Como primera recomendación, un libro atrevido y singular publicado por Libros de la Resistencia, Dalí-Roussel. Paranoia crítica y cibernética textual, donde Joan Bofill y Hermes Salceda conversan sobre el entusiasmo de Salvador Dalí por Raymond Roussel y sobre la película que le dedicó el ampurdanés en 1974, Impressions de la Haute Mongolie, cuyos pormenores investiga y reconstruye Bofill. También destacar dos obras publicadas por Athenaica Ediciones: Regla y tiempo real. Improvisación, interpretación y ontología de la obra musical, del pianista y filósofo Pablo Seoane, que desde la estética, la musicología y la ontología del arte esclarece aspectos básicos de la práctica musical y responde a preguntas que no solemos hacernos sobre la tradición, la naturaleza y la interpretación de la obra musical. La segunda, Los dineros, donde Pedro G. Romero vuelve sobre la espiritualidad y la iconoclastia, con preciosos prólogos de Esteban Pujals y de Germán Labrador.
Las preocupaciones identitarias también alcanzan al arte y a los artistas, y algunos estudios cuestionan la manera en cómo se define el espacio artístico, entre los que destacamos dos: el primero, el de Paloma Hernández García, Arte, propaganda y política. Ideologías disolventes en la práctica artística contemporánea en España, publicado por la editorial Sekotia. El segundo, el de Daniel Gasol, Arte (in)útil. Sobre cómo el capitalismo desactiva la cultura, publicado por la editorial Rayo Verde. Libros que entre otras cosas analizan el empobrecimiento general de los artistas en la era de la inflación del precio de particulares obras de arte.
Música: No pienses, escucha, déjate llevar
Lluís Morral
Laie (Barcelona)
Amoroso, una biografía de João Gilberto, escrita por Zuza Homem de Mello. Amigo íntimo de Gilberto, uno de los músicos brasileños más importantes del pasado siglo, el autor dedicó los últimos años de su vida a revisar el ingente material, entrevistas, libros, etcétera, así como a una escucha atenta de todos sus discos y grabaciones. El título lo publica la editorial Libros del Kultrum, especializa en música. El resultado es un magnífico volumen que nos da una imagen definitiva de quien fue considerado el rey de la música brasileña, samba, bossa nova, y muchas pistas de cómo surgió este tipo de música en Brasil y su éxito posterior en todo el mundo.
Dexter Gordon, publicado por Turner y escrito por su esposa, Maxine Gordon. Ella era su representante, y su trabajo ha sido recopilar los escritos de Dexter, ordenarlos y añadir las interioridades que movían el mundo del jazz entre los años cuarenta y sesenta. El saxofonista fue uno de los más influyentes en esas décadas, uno de los creadores del estilo bebop, con Dizzy Gillespie. Su huella se encuentra, entre otros, en uno de los grandes como John Coltrane. Activo defensor de los derechos de los negros en Estados Unidos, sus viajes por Europa contribuyeron a la difusión del jazz.
Oídos que no ven (Taurus), de Mariano Peyrou, es un ameno libro sobre la manera de introducirnos en la música dejando de lado el aspecto más racional y dejándonos llevar por los sentidos, lleno de anécdotas y repasando un poco la historia de la música.
Una reedición importante sería la biografía de Shostakovich, de Krzysztof Meyer, publicada por primera vez en 1997.
Fotografía: Imágenes para un tiempo de sobreexposición
Sara Fernández Miguélez
La Fábrica (Madrid)
Una nueva luz. En la abundancia de imágenes con las que vivimos cabe preguntarse si la fotografía aún puede ayudarnos a ver la realidad y reflexionar sobre el mundo. Podríamos pensar que estamos insensibilizados, o que todo está inventado; sin embargo, como afirma Joan Foncuberta, la misma saturación de imágenes es la que nos obliga a reflexionar sobre las que faltan.
Y faltaban las de ellos, las de los animales que han sido rescatados de situaciones de abandono, después de haber sido utilizados para la caza, de actuar en el circo e incluso de haber sido víctimas del tráfico ilegal, y de los que casi nadie habla. Cada fotografía recogida en este libro tiene una historia detrás que se narra con ellas. En The Animals (La Fábrica), Estela de Castro les da visibilidad y los dignifica a través de la magia de sus retratos, que capturan la esencia de cada animal.
Una alabanza también para los fotolibros que son capaces de trasladarnos a un universo propio, como el realizado por Luis González Palma en Los huesos del alma (Ediciones Anómalas).
Un homenaje a un gran fotógrafo: Cristóbal Hara. España Color (RM). Uno de los autores más influyentes en la fotografía actual y en la historia editorial de los libros fotográficos.
Una recuperación. Colita (Isabel Steva Hernández) publicó en plena Transición el provocativo Antifémina (Terranova), con textos de Maria Aurèlia Capmany, pero fue retirado de las librerías apenas después de su salida. En la edición actual se ha mejorado la calidad de la impresión de las imágenes con la colaboración de la propia autora.
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