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From Unknown to Unknown
This anthology in English, From Unknown to Unknown, gathers together eighty poems and is introduced by the Scottish writer John Burnside, who writes, 'Here is an essential poet whose work illuminates the world and the condition of those who live it.'
In The Wilderness
A glorious cast of animals and birds, as well as humans, relate the magical stories that form the plot of Manuel Rivas's extraordinary novel. An old lady, Misia, tells how the 300 ravens of Xallas are the warrior-poets of the last King of Galicia. A priest, Don Xil, explains to a peasant girl, Rosa, that the beautifully carved women in the local church are not saints, but represent the seven deadly sins. A mouse, Matac-ns, a poacher in his previous life, is chased by a cat, the bagpiper and anarchist, Arturo of Lousame. A bat, Gaspar, relates his own death to a lizard. In a nearby cellar, half the parish are found to have transmigrated into spiders, snails, toads-Manuel Rivas's story emerges like spirals of smoke, in a series of memorably poetic images. His characters have their roots deep in the traditions, legends and history of his beloved Galicia. Few contemporary storytellers share his power of vision and sense of cultural identity, or can narrate their tales with such tenderness and humour.
The Low Voices
The Low Voices is a novel about life, it is life itself telling stories, it is the memory of the quiet voices of the people I got to know. The Low Voices draws on a patchwork of memories from Rivas's early life under Franco. There's his beloved elder sister, Mar�a; his mother, the verbivore; his father, a construction worker with vertigo; and a supporting cast of local priests, chatty hairdressers, wolf hunters and monstrous carnival effigies. The book is full of wonderful personal stories, set against a background of the ravages of the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath at home, and the wider world as Coca-Cola sets up a factory nearby and news comes in of men landing on the moon. A brilliant coming-of-age novel from one of Spain's greatest storytellers, The Low Voices is a humorous and philosophical take on memory, belonging, and the nature of storytelling itself.
The Carpenter's Pencil
It is the summer of 1936, in the early months of the civil war that engulfed Spain. In a prison in the city of Santiago de Compostela, an artist sketches the Portico de la Gloria. He uses a carpenter's pencil. He replaces the faces of the prophets and elders with those of his Republican inmates.
Books Burn Badly
Originally published: London: Harvill Secker, 2010.
Vermeer's Milkmaid
Includes the three stories that comprise Butterfly's Tongue, upon which Jos- Luis Cuerda's acclaimed film of the same title is based.
Qué me quieres, amor?
«Sueño con la primera cereza del verano» En el relato que da título a este libro, un joven cuenta su historia de amor después de fallecer en un atraco frustrado. Era capaz de todo pero no tenia valor a decir «Te quiero.» La incomunicación personal en un mundo saturado de información y hechizado por la nueva cacharrería, el gran misterio de las relaciones humanas, es el hilo conductor de ¿Qué me quieres, amor?, con el que Manuel Rivas ha obtenido el Premio de Narrativa Torrente Ballester. Son relatos duros, algunos de una dureza extrema, encaramados al dolor y a la soledad, pero donde emergen la ternura y el humor como los mejore s amuletos y reductos de humanidad. Un viajante, ve...
Report of the Council of Trustees of the National Library of Ireland
Report for 1950/51 consists chiefly of a list of microfilm and photostat copies of manuscripts relating to Ireland to be found in the libraries and archives of Ireland and abroad.
Spanische Literatur
Die Kindler Klassiker präsentieren in einem Band die wichigen Autoren und Werke einer Nationalliteratur. Auf 600 - 800 Seiten werden sie vorgestell: kurze biografische Skizzen der Autoren und kundige Darstellung der Werke. Alles wie im KLL, nur: eine ganze literarische Welt in einem Band.
