The rake spike
Víctor Català · Club Editor · 2021
The rake spike is a compilation of magnificent stories that ends with the controversial monologue “La infanticida”, for which Caterina Albert had to change her name to Víctor Català, to be able to continue writing freely after the scandal that arose in his time. A vindication of one of the best writers we have in our language. ALODIA CLEMENTE (The Red)
The fascism of the anti-fascists
Pier Paolo Pasolini · Galaxia Gutenberg · 2021
The fascism of the anti-fascists is a short and forceful compilation of various texts—articles, cards, fragments of essays—which covers the last ten years of Pier Paolo Pasolini and his work, portraying the most current aspects of his thought and describing the ways in which fascism, today disguised as consumerist totalitarianism, travels and inhabits our lives. SAINTS LEMOINE (The Bathysphere)
Inventory of some lost things
Judith Schalansky · Cliff · 2021
Inventory of some lost things It is a book halfway between an essay and a personal chronicle that covers some cultural treasures that have been submerged in oblivion., the deterioration of time or destruction at the hands of humans, but those we can trace in historical or literary documents. A reflection on the loss and importance of memory. LIGHTS ROMERO (Bartleby)
Carter
Ted Lewis · Sajalin · 2021
Set in a gray, oppressive steel town in the north of England in the late 1960s., Carter It is considered the founding work of the modern British crime novel and its film adaptation, with Michael Caine playing Jack Carter, It is today a cult film. After a few months out of the catalog we celebrate this reissue of Sajalín. JAIME ORTEGA (Per-r-ucho)
Madrid will be the grave
Elizabeth Duval · Rag tongue · 2021
“Any good man from Madrid always thinks about the extermination of the social class to which he does not belong”. The Castle in front of the Commune. Fascists vs reds. Demonstrations and internet forums as weapons of mass destruction. There are Santiago and Ramiro, actors and witnesses of a crazy city where naivety has been eradicated and love has become a privilege. S.P
C3PO at King Philip's court
Pedro Vallin · Arpa · 2021
The last ten years of Spanish politics can be explained by using the android of Star Wars, of Matrix pills, of the Oedipus Rex investigations or the Media Markt slogan opening new perspectives and plausible futures. We qualify, One of the most lucid journalists in this country can do it, bringing out his deep knowledge of contemporary culture and the functioning of the state machinery., about the political intertwinings and about the human condition in general. Vallín takes out his laser sword to mercilessly attack the journalistic guild—endogamous and inconsequential—, to political imbecility—from which he saves José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero—, to the Madrid Court—centralist and absorbing—, more aware of the numbers than the speech, to the vermin that bustle in the sewers of the state in connivance with high places, and to the Constitutional Court, worn out and discredited by his descent into the mud of politics. C3PO at King Philip's court points the finger at the dynamics and atrophies of a complex world in which a Spanish democracy that can be greatly improved is inserted. Their sharp analyzes discover that the reactionism that reigns in Spain today is a consequence of the unfinished resolution of 15M and the Procés, that Spain is a solid state in a failed nation, that neoregionalism spurred by the success of Teruel Exists in the last elections draws a new crisis of the two-party system, that the scarcity of firm certainties explains the success of simplifying discourses about the confusing contemporary reality, that with the dismantling of the Soviet Union the fear of communism disappeared, and with him, incentives for a solvent welfare state, that the definitions related to our sexual identity, territorial, ideological or class (become a central political issue) They are more useful to third parties than to ourselves, and that generational war has replaced class struggle. Much to think about condensed in journalistic pieces that prestige the profession. S.M.
The girl on the ice
Adélaïde Bon · Anagrama · 2021
The French actress Adélaïde Bon was a victim of sexual abuse when she was nine years old and in The girl on the ice, his first book, He explains to us the devastating effects that have arisen from that abuse throughout his life., years and years in which I screamed without making a sound. Bon is “hungry for healing words” that will help him take possession of his past.. AU
National collusion
Alejandro Romero Reche and El Bute (drawing) · Akal · 2021
Conspiracists and conspiracy theories have existed since the world was created.. Jews have long been suspected of pulling strings in the shadows to dominate the world. (damn George Soros!) and that the Freemasons hide very dirty matters behind their little symbols and their signs. That's looking back, More recent are the theories about black hands behind the murder of John F.. Kennedy, ETA committing the 11-M attacks, pedophile and child trafficking networks run by politicians from the Democratic Party and the establishment progress the Hollywood (Pizzagate) or pharmaceutical companies spreading Covid-19 to make money selling vaccines (if they benefit so much, it will be for a reason). Alejandro Romero is a professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology of the University of Granada, author of the book Humor in postmodern sociology and graphic novel screenwriter The song of the worms (Editorial Standard). We comment on it because National collusion combine a little of all this, the sociological analysis of how and why conspiracy theories are created and spread, lots of humor and sarcasm (almost whistling) in their comments and in the comic illustrations that accompany and degrease each chapter. Definitely, what we get clear from this Illustrated overview of the conspiracy theories of the Spanish right is that the raw material of conspiratorial fabrication is a mixture of uncertainty, impotence, distrust and division (polarization), and that theories that fit some of our previous ideas about reality are convincing.. Uncertainty, impotence, distrust and division in Spain in the Covid era? AU
We were already at the end of something
Daniel Bernabé · Bruguera · 2021 (marzo)
Daniel Bernabé nails the analysis of the pre-pandemic world situation with a very didactic and accessible language and message, less interested in the description of the global health crisis (the during), a little more analysis of the after. Its main thesis is that the pandemic has arrived when our societies were already weak and had too many conflicts., contradictions and uncertainties. The state is rapidly losing power, the left focuses on representing minorities instead of seeking the redistribution of wealth, the economy becomes financial, the working class is diluted in individualism, The planet is degrading and conspiracy theories are triggered, giving shape to our unresolved fears.. We don't like what we have, Barnabas says, but alternatives are perceived as threats, so that a generalized frustration arises that has only one outlet: the fault always lies with the other. Aware of the pessimism that festers, it's at the end when We were already at the end of something It gives us a little air so that not everything is pitch black: “behind an end everything is yet to begin”. AU
