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The Red Notebook
"The Red Notebook belongs to the autobiographical genre and the novel-writing tradition that deals with the female voice and memory. This novel breaks new ground from a physical and psychological point of view, bringing out the social and political aspects of motherhood"--Provided by publisher.
Why Little Darling
In 1979, when Arantxa Urretabizkaia's Why Little Darling was published, a wave of positive surprise spread throughout our land. The first edition was 63-pages long, and Hordago published it. On those pages, for the first time (because we had never read anything like this before), we could read the story of a woman who had been abandoned by her husband. It is worth mentioning that up until that point, the field of Basque literature had been cultivated mostly by men-men and priests-with the the efforts of Jon Mirande (1925-1972) as the only exception.The narrator has a little son, whom she calls her little darling, as a practically mute interlocutor, and she hopes that somehow her husband will return. She speaks from the doorway of feminism, separating the roles of women and men. This is a modern voice. Her hopes won't come true and her destiny will be to be alone, represented by the proximity of the cold winter. It is a beautiful novella, simple, bare, straightforward, easily readable, and it leaves a taste of real life in your mouth. It is a must, indeed, a cornerstone of Basque literature!
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture
This book offers a comprehensive account of modern Spanish culture, tracing its dramatic and often unexpected development from its beginnings after the Revolution of 1868 to the present day. Specially-commissioned essays by leading experts provide analyses of the historical and political background of modern Spain, the culture of the major autonomous regions (notably Castile, Catalonia, and the Basque Country), and the country's literature: narrative, poetry, theatre and the essay. Spain's recent development is divided into three main phases: from 1868 to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War; the period of the dictatorship of Francisco Franco; and the post-Franco arrival of democracy. The concept of 'Spanish culture' is investigated, and there are studies of Spanish painting and sculpture, architecture, cinema, dance, music, and the modern media. A chronology and guides to further reading are provided, making the volume an invaluable introduction to the politics, literature and culture of modern Spain.
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El cuaderno rojo
"Una joven abogada (L.) llega a Caracas con una misión: localizar a dos niños y entregarles un cuaderno. En ese cuaderno la madre de los niños, militante clandestina, ha escrito su versión de lo que pasó, cuando el padre se los llevó lejos de ella. Durante todos esos años la madre no ha sabido dónde establan su hijo e hija. Ahora que sabe en qué ciudad viven, teme que la hayan olvidado, que otra mujer haya ocupado su lugar, teme que hayan olvidado queines fueron, que hayan olvidado incluso el euskera. Mientras intenta cumplir su misión, L. lee, poco a poco, lo escrito en el cuaderno. Descubre así facetas desconocidas de la madre y de ella misma."--Back cover.
Días de lluvia
"Writers, publishers, readers and scholars have stopped apologising for the short story: the genre is no longer a bad investment, a trial-exercise for a novel or a minor entertainment, as demonstrated by exceptional writers with an almost exclusive dedication to it, such as Jorge Luis Borges, Alice Munro, Quim Monzâo or Cristina Fernâandez Cubas. With deep roots in classic and medieval literatures, and great achievements in the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries, the genre of the short story, which benefits from the linguistic tightness of poetry and the narrative comforts of the novel, has finally been recognised as having a (hybrid) identity of its own. This volume re-edits and expands ...
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