Hair removal (definitive)
Maria Barba Melusina Editorial · 2019
Waxing is a wonderful essay by María Barba, with a prologue by Itziar Ziga, in which all the cosmetic techniques that emerged at the end of the 19th century are reported.. 19th and early 20th centuries, and that collects, also, the advertisements. A fun and chilling story of the oppression that has been exerted on the bodies of women in Spain and that still exists today., in the 21st century, endures. Don't hesitate to purchase it! Your smile will freeze! Guaranteed! ALODIA CLEMENTE (The Red)
Memories of the future
Siri Hustvedt · Six Barral · 2019
Halfway between a kind of autobiography and a novel of discovery, a kind of portrait of the teenage artist, Hustvedt reflects on the passage of time: questions about how memories, what we were, they condition what we are or what we will be. Through the pages of Memories of the future We will find a budding author who raises our relationship with reality, while teaching us the limits of fiction and the labyrinths of memory. It could be a novel, with its plot thriller psychological, but it goes further, and as in all his work, issues arise such as science, feminism or art, and its enormous capacity to change our idea of the world. LIGHTS ROMERO (Bartleby)
Autonomous
Mariana Miserable · Nice editorial · 2019
Autonomous It is the fanzine led to a book by the Portuguese author Mariana Miserable, Originally created in Korea, it has been redesigned and translated by the Basque publisher Bonito Editorial.. It is a beautiful book that illustrates the adventures of some fundamental beings in these confusing times we live in., los freelanzer y, Of course, that frugal world that surrounds them. JAIME ORTEGA (Per(r)ear)
Saturday, domingo
Ray Laurie · Alfaguara · 2019
Federico, a kid like Holden Caulfield, He lives a disastrous night in his adolescence that he struggles to forget. But after every Saturday comes Sunday, that day when we must face our life. With his ability to narrate tragedy as if it were a comedy, Ray Loriga captivates with an agile and even funny novel about guilt and escape. GLORIA POZUELO
I'm still here
Maggie O’Farrell · Asteroid Books · 2019
I'm still here is a very particular book of memories. Maggie O’Farrell collects seventeen episodes of his life in which he has been more or less close to death. Assaulted by a man in the mountains, drowned while carelessly swimming towards a coastal platform or due to an intestinal parasite. A vanitas book that reminds us of the fragility of life and encourages us to downplay the importance of things that have no importance.. S.M.
short and fat
Elmonstruodecoloresnotieneboca · 2019
short and fat has been named as dreamzine, this is, and fanzine made from real dreams, that was conceived at the Fanzine Fair of Cooked in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. A woman sunbathing among seals, a funeral with Snoopy, a zebra that wants to be a white horse, a nudist bar in Lavapiés… These and other surreal scenes illustratedas by Edmond in 60 numbered copies with orange as the protagonist. Elmonstruodecoloresnotieneboca had us accustomed to the dreams of illustrated children by adults (and vice versa), y aalthough tohere weayawe have all grown up, the result is still a dreamlikesenseless. Not so much? AU
Space to dream
David Lynch and Kristine MacKenna Reservoir Books · 2019
The first thing to highlight Space to dream It is a book that you want to read as soon as you pick it up in your hands.. From the cover design, its layout, the very texture of the paper and the abundant amount of images that are sprinkled at the beginning of each chapter and that you will discover at a first glance, It is a promise that will awaken the imagination of the potential reader.. Adapting the format of the American edition (except for the nice original title, Room to dreamwhich could refer to one of the best-known works of its author), Those responsible for Reservoir Books offer us an object that catches the eye, a candy for aesthetes of all kinds who will find here a first material for delight. And it's not bad. It's not so much about “selling us the motorcycle.” (Anyone who comes to this book already knows what they are looking for.), like looking at an object that has been made with great care. After, overcome the barrier of opening its covers, we will face its content.
Space to dream es (or presents itself) as the auto-biography of one of the most enigmatic and controversial directors in the world: David Lynch. And like all of Lynch's work, I couldn't walk on conventional trails. Coordinated by journalist Kristine McKenna, Each chapter of this volume is divided into two parts. The first is written by Mckenna herself who, relying mainly on statements from family members, friends and collaborators of the director, He tells us his intimate life, putting special emphasis (or serving as a stopover on this trip) in the most relevant steps of his career as a filmmaker and his various facets as a multidisciplinary artist (We must not forget that Lynch took his first creative steps as a painter, work that he has continued to develop throughout his life). Each of these blocks is accompanied by an alternative account of the same events, but now written by Lynch himself, who takes center stage here in a fascinating first person. It is in this second voice where the crux of the matter lies.. O, rather, in the confrontation between Mckenna's apparently more objective narration and that more suggestive incursion, sometimes radically disordered, capricious, the Lynch.
Without a doubt, there will be two types of readers for this text.. In the first group we will find those who will approach the figure of the author of wild heart. For these, everything narrated in these pages will be new to you, which will provide you with no little substantial information about the life and work of this unique artist.. The second group will be made up of those followers of his work who may have already approached these issues from previous proposals.. These last, apart from some scattered information that perhaps they might not be aware of, They will also enjoy the work of guessing, from among Lynch's own words, the clues to unravel or corroborate the keys to the construction process of his films. It should be noted, also, that both Lynch and Mckenna have not attempted to prepare the definitive biography of the director. They are so aware of the limits that this task requires, That is how they leave it recorded in the first pages of the book. That work will correspond to them, definitely, to researchers from other academic or theoretical backgrounds. After all, Telling your own life can lead you to fall into the traps of memory or deliberately subjective and embellishing interpretations of the facts., ambushes of which both authors are fully aware. One might ask, so, What does the text offer us in this sense?.
There is no doubt that trying to unravel the mechanisms that set in motion the cognitive processes on which David Lynch's talent is based, It is one of the most stimulating challenges when facing your work.. in a world, the one from the cinema, dominated from its beginnings by a linear narrative supported by the argument or plot, Lynch's cinema (the one that we could consider more personal) broke out, destroying all logic assumed by both critics and the majority of viewers.. This apparent somewhat chaotic disorder that prevails in films like eraser head, Blue velvet, lost road or the bright and sinuous Inland empire, seemed to hide some hidden mystery to be discovered, and that is what his millions of followers have applied to over the years. Lynch had achieved, even, bring their forms and codes to a medium as apparently conservative as television with that disconcerting series with an already mythical title, Twin peaks, in which, starting from genre cinema, It crossed the limits of logic to take us through transcendent terrain., even close to a certain spirituality. But before getting into the details, Perhaps we should pay attention to a previous step that this book does reveal to us..
We could say that in Space to dream two different Lynches appear, or perhaps two complementary views of that individual we know as David Lynch. The first would be the most mythical and mysterious Lynch, which is built from the stories of those who have known him or worked with him and, Of course, they admire him. There appears the Lynch that his many followers hope to meet.. But, next to this, a more intimate Lynch appears on another level, fun and playful. A Lynch who doesn't mind digging into the most delicate parts of his personal life (when referring to his different marriages), but above all a Lynch who conceives that vital and memory experience as a kind of trunk full of junk that he has been dropping there as time went by.. There is no very precise linearity in all of this., apart from the logical direction that marks the reasonable chronology of the events. Because if we ourselves had to create the memory of our own past, Perhaps that should not be restricted to the mere recording of our most relevant achievements in accordance with that logic of success to which we are so accustomed.. We would also have to include small details not relevant to that purpose, but they meant a lot in our development, moments of our lives, without even knowing it, They formed an important part of the substrate of what we are. And this is when the group reveals its cards. Because what we are really dealing with is the life and work of a man who, first of all, has persistently sought and worked for one thing: your freedom. personal freedom and, above all, creative freedom. It is from that freedom that the pages of this book exude and claim that we must begin to walk our path towards understanding his work.. a delight. GERARDO LEON
