BOOKS JUNE 2018

SWING TIMES
Zadie Smith · Salamandra · 2017
The Zadie Smith who surprised the literary world at 22 years with his debut white teethpublishes a story in which race conflicts clearly emerge, class and gender. The speaker (unnamed) and her complicated friend Tracey, daughters of mixed marriages, They dreamed as children of becoming great dancers., but their personal stories will be separated at forced marches. S.M.

THE SECRET LIFE OF COWS
Rosamund Young · Six Barral · 2018
Written with humor, in a warm way and full of anecdotes, We will discover big little secrets about… cows. Behaviors such as their ability to play, to hold a grudge, to love or to be creative. A fascinating journey through the lives of these animals that, despite being with us for so long, remain largely unknown.. GINÉS J. VERA

NEW RADICAL ILLUSTRATION
Marina Garcés · Anagram · 2017
Marina Garcés (Barcelona, 1973) She is a philosopher and university professor who usually puts her finger on the sore spot.. In this recent pamphlet, and as usual, denounces the situation that Spanish society has reached after the last economic crisis and the need to take the reins again. Our future, states, depends on it. A courageous text, brave. and necessary. R.M.

IMPOSSIBLE AFTERMATH
Javi Bóinez, Sixtus. García and Raúl Salazar · Fandogamia · 2018
Javi Bóinez, Sixtus. García and Raúl Salazar are CinemaScupe, the trio that since 2013 They are dedicated to making humor from movies, more than bad, infumables. Well then, These three have decided to write a book about possible sequels to great cinema myths. Do you want to know how it continues Gandhi 2: influencer o Torrent 13? This is your book. To break the box, Listen. G.LEON

DEATH WITH PENGUIN
Andrei Kurkov · Blackie Books · 2018
Andrei Kurkov was part of the KGB before publishing Death with penguintwenty years ago, a story set in post-Soviet-era Ukraine about a depressed, unemployed journalist trying to become a writer. One day a newspaper commissions him to write obituaries of living personalities and they begin to die suspiciously.. Exaltation of black humor and the absurd. S.M.

BRIVIARY OF SCOLIA
Nicolás Gómez Dávila · Atalanta · 2018
The work of the Colombian writer and thinker Nicolás Gómez Dávila is little known among us. In 2009, Jacobo Siruela's Atalanta publishing house put into circulation a sober volume of more than a thousand pages with all its scholia: now he does the same thing again, but with a careful selection of these that has been carried out by José Miguel Serrano (what, in addition, takes over the prologue) and Gonzalo Muñoz. Nicolás Gómez Dávila was not a writer for the masses. Not even for people of conservative ideology (o, rather, reactionary) Who could we relate it to?. In fact, his are aphorisms that escape mere classifications; for the unprejudiced reader, It is something that has been repeated lately - and it is true -, reading it will provoke reflection, and as a result of this, the agreement or rejection between the parties will arise..
The nature of scholium, like the one in the gloss, it is very simple. In the case at hand, it often transcends the condition of mere comment.. Thus, these that concern us become new sentences, in the manner of classical epigrams. in them, its author distributes left and right: against the bourgeois, against materialism, but also in favor of their favorite saints, Michel de Montaigne and the cultural historian Jacob Burckhardt ("Let's not try to explain, but to circumscribe the enigma”, just as his History of Architecture teacher would have taught him, Franz Kugler).
“We spend a lifetime understanding what a stranger understands at a glance.”: that we are as insignificant as the rest”. Given comments like this, bordering on pure philosophy, there are plenty of approximations from any other approach. It is worth getting carried away by reading some texts a priori (only a priori) strangers to our time. Insurance. R.M.

POETIC ANTHOLOGY
Francisco Brines · Alliance · 2018
Alianza paperbacks do not attract attention. They are discreet, more now than before: The cover designs made by Daniel Gil marked an era for their novelty and daring. The current ones tend towards sobriety, which is in its own way another virtue. One of these simple books, austere like its author, It is the one that has recently been published with some of the best verses of our best contemporary poet, selected by Ángel Rupérez; we mean, Of course it is, a Francisco Brines.
The news, which will hardly have had any echo in the media, is that this poetic anthology contains ten unpublished works by the poet from Oliva. News, and not less: from The last coast (Tusquets, 1995), Brines did not give any new poems to the press. Brines's poetry follows the paths of his usual themes: the passage of time, the return (a new return) to Elca and a possible epitaph: “As if nothing had happened”.
The rest of the volume contains poems from all his books, from The embers (Rialp, 1960), with which he obtained the prestigious Adonais award, to the mentioned The last coast, going through milestones like The autumn of roses, with which he obtained the National Poetry Prize in its edition of 1987; in the latter, He collected beautiful verses tinged with a joy infected with that usual melancholy of his that are now seeing the light again.. As, verbigracia, the one who gave the title to that book: “You already live in the season of delayed time: you have called it the autumn of roses. Breathe them in and light up. And listen when the silence fades, the silence of the world. Rafa Martínez