A Little Life. Hanya Yanagihara, New York: Anchor Books, 2016 Interlaced Symphony "...But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restor'd and sorrows end". [W.Shakespeare, Sonnet XXX] They say that when a woman gives birth, her inner organs just move inside as if they've been shaken for a while, like... Leer más →
The Time in Between. María Dueñas. New York: Atria Books, 2011 In between lines The time I spent working on a bookstore was full of intrigues. Although I was just there for almost two years, I could notice that the clients came and went most of the time asking for a single book. They did... Leer más →
Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen. T. Egerton. London. 1813 The Cheapest Therapist It is a truth particularly denied that I don't agree with any of the characters in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. I beg you pardon Sirs, but although I'm conscious of not being in a position to consider whether those depictions are good... Leer más →
Sense and Sensibility. Jane Austen (1811). London: Penguin Books, 1988. Sense and Sensibility. Ang Lee, 1995. (Screenplay by Emma Thompson) Jane's Friends Sometimes while I'm reading a book or watching a movie, I can't avoid to consider the characters in their stories as friends of mine, just as that kind of people I know for... Leer más →
A Man of the People. Chinua Achebe. Johannesburg, South Africa: Heinemann, 1988. All of them Witches Taking into consideration that Chinua Achebe (Ogidi, Anambra, Nigeria, 1930 - Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 2013) was forced to leave his country with his family soon after the publication of this novel, accused by his people of being informed... Leer más →
Sexo fácil, películas tristes. Alejo Flah, 2014 Sad films, sad films It must be difficult to try to concentrate yourself on work without thinking on your own life. Your problems are probably there too, also floating in the air of your mind, in the atmosphere of your thoughts. Difficult, they say. The moment you pick... Leer más →
National Gallery. Frederick Wiseman, 2014 Disappearing point We do the right thing when in those blue days of delusion, we long for not being visible and disappear, completely, like in RADIOHEAD's song. Sometimes the best option is to go and wander through the rooms of a gallery, letting those ancient eyes from the portraits to... Leer más →
Begin Again.John Carney, 2013 Popland Shall I compare thee to a Summer's film? No, please: don't let me considering you as an entertainment piece for boring people, you are more lovely and more temperate... and forgetting all about Shakespeare's sonnets, I can tell you this film is a serious thing. It worth. Whenever I think... Leer más →
The Forbidden Zone. A nurse's impressions of the First World War. Mary Borden. Hesperus Press. London. 2008 ¡Zona prohibida! Una enfermera norteamericana en la Gran Guerra. Trad. Teresa Gómez Reus y Peter Lauber. Biblioteca Javier cay d'Estudis Nord-Americans. Valencia. 2011 etcetera It seems quite difficult to figure out a poem without words. The idea may... Leer más →
Wuthering Heights. Andrea Arnold. 2011 Such Great Heights It is good to know that there are some other perspectives above the classics. It feels like discovering a new way of learning and loving. A new kind of "literature love". Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights was one of the most interesting books I have ever studied; so... Leer más →
La mano que escribe con pluma (por María López Villarquide) 