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Trapiello in post-war Madrid and other books of the week

2022-09-24T10:55:32.254Z


The critics of 'Babelia' review the latest from Wade Matthews, Eduardo Ruiz Sosa, Margarita García Robayo and Mark Galeotti


The new essay

The musical instrument.

Evolution, gestures and reflections

leads us to ask ourselves countless questions about musical instruments: can a Japanese person manage to play the flamenco guitar well? Does a musical instrument have a gender?

or why isn't a brush equivalent to a clarinet?

Musician and researcher Wade Matthews tries to answer all of them from different perspectives.

Along with what is the book of the week for

Babelia

, the supplement's critics review more titles.

The book of our absences

, a novel by the Mexican Eduardo Ruiz Souza that combines past and present, leaves the impression that Mexican narrative is affected by the need to serve the historical truth of Mexico.

We are also talking about

Madrid 1945

, where Andrés Trapiello returns to an episode that marked the postwar period: the one that happened on the night of February 25, 1945, when a group of PC guerrillas —some maquis— assaulted a Falange sub-delegation in Cuatro Caminos and killed the concierge and a Falangist.

La encomienda,

the new novel by Margarita García Robayo, offers an analysis of family relationships from multiple angles, as well as work relationships, along with those others that, even sporadic as they may be, occur between the residents of a building.

Throughout 700 pages, the Mexican historian Enrique Krauze traces, together with the writer and politician José María Lassalle, a journey through the readings of his life in

Spinoza in Parque México

.

And two essays by Mark Galeotti recently translated into Spanish —

We Have to Talk About Putin and Brief History of Russia

— shed light on the war in Ukraine and the controversial figure hovering over it, Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Source: elparis

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