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Divorce is in the Air
Joan-Marc’s out of work, he’s alone, he has a heart condition, his mother’s addicted to pills, he can’t stand his sister. Otherwise, life is beautiful. And there’s a lot that his estranged second wife doesn’t know about him. But in Divorce is in the Air he now sets out to tell her. He begins with the failure of his first marriage, describing a holiday taken in a last-ditch attempt to salvage a once passionate relationship. Recalling this ill-fated trip triggers a life-story’s worth of flashbacks. From pivotal childhood scenes – his earliest sexual encounters, his father’s suicide – he moves on through the years, hopscotching between Barcelona and Madrid, describing a life of indulgence and of appetites. The result is an unapologetic, daring, acerbic novel by an electrifying young writer about love and the end of love, and how hard it can be to let go.
The Reading Room/8
A literary journal in book form. Essays, fiction, poetry, and art.
Divorce is in the Air
Joan-Marc's out of work, he's alone, he has a heart condition, his mother's addicted to pills, he can't stand his sister. Otherwise, life is beautiful. And there's a lot that his estranged second wife doesn't know about him. But in Divorce is in the Air he now sets out to tell her. He begins with the failure of his first marriage, describing a holiday taken in a last-ditch attempt to salvage a once passionate relationship. Recalling this ill-fated trip triggers a life-story's worth of flashbacks. From pivotal childhood scenes - his earliest sexual encounters, his father's suicide - he moves on through the years, hopscotching between Barcelona and Madrid, describing a life of indulgence and of appetites. The result is an unapologetic, daring, acerbic novel by an electrifying young writer about love and the end of love, and how hard it can be to let go.
The Book of Barcelona
A slighted wife escapes her wealthy family for the evening and stumbles into the city's red-light district... The head of security at Barcelona's container port searches for a figure that only he has seen sneak in... An elderly woman brings home a machine that will turn her body into atoms, so she can leave behind a city that is no longer recognisable... Historically, Barcelona is a city of resistance and independence; a focal point for Catalan identity, as well as the capital of Spanish republicanism. Nestled between the Mediterranean coast and mountains, this burgeoning city has also been home to some of the greatest names in modern art and architecture, and attracts visitors and migrants from all over the world. As a result, the city is a melting-pot of cultures, and the stories gathered here offer a miscellany of form and genre, fittingly reminiscent of one of Gaudi's mosaics. From the boy-giant outgrowing his cramped flat on the city's outskirts, to the love affair that begins in a launderette, we meet characters who are reclaiming the independence of their city by challenging common misconceptions and telling its myriad truths.
Shifting Subjectivities in Contemporary Fiction and Film from Spain
This collection of essays analyzes shifting notions of self as represented in films and novels written and produced in Spain in the twenty-first century. In doing so, the anthology establishes an international dialogue of multicultural perspectives on trends in contemporary Spain, and serves as a useful reference for scholars and students of Spanish literature and cinema. The primary avenues of exploration include representations of recovery in post-crisis Spain, marginalized texts and identities, silenced subjectivities, intersecting relationships, and spaces of desire and control. The individual chapters focus on major events, such as the global economic crisis, the tension between majority and minority cultures within Spain, and the ongoing repercussions of past trauma and historical memory. In doing so, they build upon theories of identity, subjectivity, gender, history, memory, and normativity.
La Roja (Endebate)
Las claves del éxito que han llevado a La Roja a convertirse en uno de los referentes mundiales de la historia del fútbol y del deporte. Jimmy Burns indaga en los orígenes del éxito internacional del fútbol español. A través de entrevistas a grandes actores y protagonistas de la historia del fútbol en España como Vicente del Bosque o Johan Cruyff, explica las claves que han llevado a La Roja a convertirse en un referente mundial de los valores fundamentales del deporte.
Una pedagogía desobediente
Este libro recoge una trama de historias en la que compartimos nuestros saberes y experiencias en educación infantil, primaria, secundaria y universitaria. En estas historias trenzamos lo que puede ser una pedagogía desobediente. La noción de pedagogía desobediente se relaciona con un ethos pedagógico que no anticipa ni determina un sujeto ontológico o epistemológico prescrito (el docente o el aprendiz). Como Dennis Atkinson, no pensamos la praxis de la desobediencia en el sentido de ser incómodo o rebelde simplemente porque sí, sino en términos de posibilitar un evento que, al incumplir con lo preestablecido, abra nuevas formas de pensar, actuar y aprender. El libro, además, ofre...
La Antártida (Colección Endebate)
Un viaje hasta el corazón de la Antártida a bordo del buque oceanográfico Polarstern. El biólogo Sergio Rossi, uno de los pocos privilegiados que ha pisado la mítica tierra de la Antártida, nos acompaña a bordo del buque alemán Polarstern hasta «el fin del mundo», la zona de Larsen, un lugar que los ojos del hombre no han visto jamás. Nos muestra la fauna y flora que habitan la superficie helada y los fondos marinos del continente blanco, y nos explica la importancia crucial de mantener su equilibrio para poder preservar también el equilibrio del planeta.
Meine Geschichte ohne dich
Ein Mann zwischen Ehe, Rausch und Lebensüberdruss - leidenschaftlich und schockierend offen Auch Joan-Marcs zweite Ehe liegt in Trümmern. Dabei ist er erst Anfang vierzig. Er zieht von Bar zu Bar durch das nächtliche Barcelona; in Gedanken ist er bei seiner Frau, die ihn wenige Wochen zuvor hat sitzen lassen. Vor ihr legt er eine schonungslos ehrliche Lebensbeichte ab. Er erzählt von Helen, seiner ersten Ehefrau, einer Amerikanerin mit blonder Mähne – von den ersten wilden Jahren voller Begierde und ihren letzten gemeinsamen Tagen, als sie ihm ein Messer in die Schulter rammte. Joan-Marc erzählt aber auch von seinen Eltern, deren Bürgerlichkeit sie nicht vor dem Absturz retten konnte – auch sie irgendwann geschieden –, von seinen Prägungen, sexueller Initiation und Männlichkeit, von Depression und Rausch, Lebensüberdruss und Überlebenswille. Ein scharfsinniger Roman, der glauben machen möchte, dass man das Leben unmöglich meistern kann – eine Lektion, gegen die wir uns aber, wie Gonzalo Tornés Held, mit jeder Faser unseres Körpers sträuben.
El escritorio y el mundo:
Ludwig Hohl escribió a propósito de la misión del escritor: “no se trata de una construcción de sentido, sino de un hallazgo de sentido (no se puede construir un sentido; mas se lo encuentra mediante la transformación de la conciencia)”. La literatura, como otros discursos, sale al paso de la contingencia que mide al ser humano en su vulnerabilidad. Pero a diferencia de esos otros discursos –el de la ideología, el de la reflexión, el de la trascendencia– no se resiste a la contingencia mediante construcciones de sentido, sino que la acepta como premisa y sale a su encuentro en espera de la maravilla que en ella intuye. Enseña la literatura a expandir la experiencia de la vida en el campo de lo inesperado y hasta de lo imposible. Sobre estos asuntos versan los estudios comprendidos en este volumen, cuyos autores alternan, en mayor o menor medida, la docencia universitaria con la creación artística.
