Literature and language

… and the memoirs of Bush a few days ago we were speaking about the bubble of the contemporary art and today José Luis Pardo, in the article about The Country Culture and depression suggests that “the wave of sadness that the cultural critics had already detecting in the cinematic, musical and narrative ambience of last months” might be...
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Isaac Rosa presents his new novel The country of the fear The Sevillian writer Isaac Rosa is interviewed in Babelia owing to the publication of his last novel The country of the fear (Seix Barral): "We are growing in fears. They are accumulative. We are turning into a society governed by them. It is present in a lot of forms: fear to...
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Will the economic crisis change the literature? It would be said that the Spanish intelligentsia, now of holidays, remains lodged in that metaphorical “Big Hotel Abyss” to which the old Stalinist Georg Lukács was referring when his ostensible conformism was reproaching the German intelligentsia (and especially to Adornment); “they have settled” - Manuel Sacristán was translating - in “a splendid building...
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The Italian writer was in the Expo of Saragossa presenting his new theatrical spectacle: “Does the water hurt?” Are here some of the declarations of Darío Fo gathered in the Public newspaper: The end is that the people laugh, since, as Molière said: "So that the brain should be opened to the people not...
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One of the cultural characteristics of the Saharan people is the oral tradition poetry Gabriela García Calderon Orbe has translated for Global Voices in Spanish an article of Renata Avila about Saharan poetry in Arabic and in Spanish: For some cultures, it is the meal, for others it is the music, and many cultures show his character in...
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Article of Constantino Bértolo Rebuscando in the newspaper archive of The Country I have found this old article about 1997 in which critical and publishing Constantino Bértolo - I believe that in answer to an institutional campaign for the promotion of the reading - he was analyzing what, why and why to read. I wonder if...
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Poems of Elizabeth Escudero, with references machadianas One of the books that inevitably I will throw in the suitcase when in a few days I go out of holidays, in the direction of the south (who said: when it always sees trips towards the south; and if you have to go to the north, see towards the south and turn to the world?) it will be...
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