"The Happy Prince" in The Happy Prince and Other Tales; Oscar Wilde; (1888) Real happiness The first time someone reads The happy Prince, the natural tendency is to feel some kind of emotion deep inside, but only after having read it three times at least, the reader will be able to discover to what extent... Leer más →
Tenth of December. Stories. George Saunders. New York: Random House. 2013 The real diving Please take a breath: let us plunge into facts that everybody knows. Take them as if they were new, strange, uncommon... I suggest you have a look on this successful book and at the same time, you bring some Black Mirror... Leer más →
“Bliss”. Katherine Mansfield (1918) Although being thirty is probably the least important thing all over Mansfield’s short story Bliss, it seems to be some kind of clue for the reader, a sort of enigma to be solved by the moment he or she reaches the end. Bertha Young, the adorable protagonist of the text is a... Leer más →
"A Daughter of the Lodge". The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories (1906) George Gissing; Los Ángeles: Aegypan, 2006. Looking for the new woman Amongst all the different subjects presented throughout this text, I think it’s important to notice that there is a new kind of real life picture drown by George Gissing. A Daughter... Leer más →
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 →
Bosch. The Garden of Dreams. José Luis López-Linares. 2016 The constant Garden Try to look carefully at this painting. Try to concentrate yourself on this landscape, this story, this incredible triptych. Please: make an effort. Don't jump from one panel to the other. Don't be surprised for what you see and of course: remember no... 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 →
La mano que escribe con pluma (por María López Villarquide) 