Mine. A biomythography
Audre Lorde · Captain Swing and Hours and Hours · 2023
We are in luck! The mythical and classic work Mine by Audre Lorde who published decades ago Hours and Hours (the publishing house of the Madrid Women's Bookstore) and it has been out of stock for a long time, returns now with the support of Captain Swing. It tells the story of a black girl who fights to get ahead despite all the obstacles that life throws at her.. A fundamental novel to approach black feminism from the narrative of an essential author in the history of contemporary literature. ALODIA CLEMENTE (The Red)
Becoming a work of art
Boris Groys · Black Box Editor · 2023
Boris Groys proposes a reflection on contemporary aesthetic practices through an exercise that contrasts the finitude of biological time with the transcendent temporality of art. Becoming a work of art It is a good summary of the history of modern art analyzed as a history of aestheticizations.. JAIME ORTEGA (Per-r-ucho)
Assent or destabilizeLate but sure, maybe, Rafael Chirbes receives well-deserved recognition as one of the most important writers of the 20th century in Spain. And they are books like this Assent or destabilize, a collection of reviews, articles and interviews published between 1975 y 1980 in various media, that accurately portrays life (contra)culture of the Transition, those who will be in charge of doing it. SAINTS LEMOINE (The Bathysphere)
The man sitting in the corridor
Marguerite Duras · Afers · 2023
At the limits of literature, a high voltage book for demanding readers. Marguerite Duras explores radical design, sensuality beyond norms, the joc of the look, interior i exterior. Rather, unclassifiable. Accused, for mental anorexics, of pornographic. A daring book, bordering on limits, with an enormously enlightening epilogue - which situates it and enriches the reading - by Arnau Pons, who did the translation. If you love literature as a challenge and want to get out of sugary routines, you already know. GUSTAU MUÑOZ
Cinema meditations
Quentin Tarantino · Reservoir Books · 2023
Director Quentin Tarantino reviews his childhood and youth as a film spectator underground of the seventies that, taking advantage of the crisis in the study system, would support the foundations of the call “New Hollywood”. They accompany you, among others, Peter Yates, Don Siegel, John Boorman, Walter Hill, Brian de Palma, Peter Bogdanovich, Martin Scorsese, Don Siegel o Paul Schrader. ¡Catapúm! G. LEÓN
Tostonase
Santiago Lorenzo · Blackie Books · 2022
There was expectation to read the new thing by Santiago Lorenzo, the writer who surprised with that The disgusting ones (2018) whose success led him to the theater, with Miguel Rellán and Secun de la Rosa. In Tostonase the humor and that sly look towards the world and certain inane characters that inhabit it are maintained. For example, a bitter old man incapable of adapting to the times in the slightest or an infiltrator in the world of cinema (brother of) who suffers the opposite of imposter syndrome, He doesn't know anything but he thinks he knows everything. Mediocre and flat men incapable of recognizing mistakes and evolving. There is hope too, personified in Bertrand, an inspiring man who is as free as he can be and makes our protagonist put a smile on his face thinking about those years he spent in Ávila taking care of a useless and grumpy old man.. The mediocrity of the human being and its counterpoint, it seems there is hope. S.M.
