Recommended books of the week – Faro de Vigo

A magnificent and necessary edition

Xosé Feixó

From the perspective of the new millennium, Os Eoas They resemble the story of a shipwreck: an intact ship at the bottom of the sea, of many seas or Pompeian cinsas, which over time were crushed again, certainly near what, in the words of Méndez Ferrín, wanted to be or intended to be, the founding poem of ours terra ou da nosa lingua, ou da terra that I wanted to single out in magnifying, ao success two great epic poems.

Never published, not during the lifetime of its author, Eduardo Pondalsenón same ata hai ben pouco, a derradeira version d’Os Eoas go now to the light of the man from Editorial Galaxia and his greatest student, or professor Xosé Ramón Penawhich is dedicated to the subject abis e paixón, and also suffering, from, in addition, the necessary historical and social context where the creation of the poem is situated, followed, of course, by the devirion of the Guadian poem, which is not lost or shorn, never Royal Academy wave suitcase.

Non tivo sorte, from lkogo, to thematic and more to perspective obstacles by a two three piares of Rexurdimento, who left that legacy without knowing that no one in very time would have an executor who fulfills his vontade, frustrated in life too. Thus, to founding epic which was intended not to be called by our contemporaries and Galician successors, the authors did not properly value or make an effort to achieve a similar parallelism with what happened in other European and American literatures that did have their great epic poem. A Galician Cristovo Colón of a nation that is discovered in America foron or nobelo is not related to the greatness of our language and of our country, and of… Spain.

Finally, it was not the year 2005, after being rescued from the suitcase in which it was stored, when the poem came to light, it was definitively recorded and analyzed by scholars Ferreiro, Forcadela and Pena, Divided into 28 sections or songs that narrate the discovery of America by a Galician Columbus. It was this last one, Pena, whose discouragement continued to deepen in the poem, in the author, in the era, and in all the vicissitudes that shaped his destiny, not that important figures of later Galicianism played an important role, until he was called lost or half .

It will be well for the reader to pay attention to the creative and historical intrahistory that Xosé Ramón Pena magnificently develops, to discover not only the poem – malia that some may not like the poetic confluence of Galicia, Spain and more or Christianity with the theme that is discovered of America, – which alone pays a penalty, but also for bearing the sad story of this shipwreck so well told by the studious editor, so meticulous, so noted and as finished as it has been time to tell.

Great Irmán

Our cyberpunk worlds

Oriana Mendez

831-urb It’s the last installment of Manuel Lopez Rodrigueza poet from Noia who defines himself as “outsider “that walks through the peripheries of verse.” We are unaware that this self-confidence proceeds from a xenophobic tendency because of the destruction of centrality or the unconscious way of fitting in or silence that critics love to receive their submissions that, however, follow one another at such a dizzying pace that it is also difficult. believe: three titles no 2020, two no 21, three no 22, two no 23 e, polo de agora, this astonishing production voráxine ou public furor culminates in the title at hand: 813-Urb, what’s worth it or Johán Carballeira Award do Concello de Bueu. The title, a combination of letters and numbers, takes us to the worlds of science-fiction or, most beautifully, of cyberpunk, with somewhat repeated and topical references from the heading itself, an apparently aseptic amalgam that forms more like a nome, a key.

Treat yourself dunha totalitarian dystopia that, with boa vontade, describes the day-to-day survival of some oppressive space of urban characteristics. Middle pole, filter, and this is interesting in terms of structure, a type of letter, which we distinguish typographically by bold and italic, which is addressed to someone outside, someone who is found outside of Gotham or Vigo hypercontrolled and future. These communications are a departure and a sentimental reunion within the framework of a liberating natural setting, like a beach. This, once again, is the contrast between a natural arcadia – as a look at nature is not also a cultural construction – and an urban one that has evil resonances, omnipresent technology and exhausting living conditions. Perhaps this Great Irmán would be obliged to open the Marxes of the conventionally Orwellian imagination to delve into contemporary dystopias such as, for example, the border control of Ana Muñiz or the pharmacopornographic regime of Paul B. Preciado.

Anguish and terror

We are entertained by the gothic novel

Mountain Estrus

Lovers of gothic novels, mystery and horror are at their disposal in bookstores. We always live in castle (1962), story by Shirley Jackson (1916-1965), author of such groundbreaking works as to lottery. This American writer was a housewife with a sedentary life, with a certain addiction to alcohol, a heavy smoker, and the fundamental economic support of two children that she was a literary critic. Jackson was also the creator of a narrative universe not that highlights the problems that different people can suffer when living in communities – especially when it comes to women – not that the narrators seem unreliable and not that the houses of the protagonists are claustrophobic places prone to Surprises that frequently lead to a disturbing atmosphere.

In this novel, the Blackwoods live in a low-lying mansion, surrounded by extensive property and protected by a fence. In this difficult-to-access territory coexist the sensitive and extravagant Merricat, her sister Constance, a twelve-year-old beautiful girl who was acquitted of murdering part of the family, or the helpless Uncle Julian and the cat Jonas. Merricat is the only one that allows this refuge two times a week to buy food and ask for books at the library. These outings are very distressing because she is convinced that her neighbors hate her. Family life, dark but full of surprises, will complicate the adventure of Curmán Charles, an intriguing and ambitious character who destabilizes relationships and ends the peace of the family. In the final part, a fire reveals to the reader the inferno that surrounds this family – in respective times -, the themes and the complex ties that are even more intense.

We always live in castle and The most famous novel by this successful writer, admired by colleagues like Stephen King.

Cool things give life

Villalta for the newcomers

Maria Navarro

For two little ones to enjoy Eva Mejuto come publish Always infinite In the Miudiñas collection by Cumio Editora, a volume that combines narration, data and verses from the author to which this year they dedicate the Day of Galician Letters and which include illustrations by Bea Gregores offers readers a parallel reading that highlights the key aspects of life, work and projection of Luisa Villaltabecause it was important to write it in the 20’s and at the beginning of the 21st century, it is also being discovered its vital universe of commitment, of attachment to movement through teaching, the close relationship between the word and music, the sensitivity facing everything that surrounded him, what was happening and what he intended, ‘the sea, always infinite’ and the balance that was out of balance.

Dunha form sinxela vai going through stages and designing a life full of symbols that have served to show that the thought that is allowed to be raised by common sense implies an unprepared and objective look at the real, at the treatment of language and culture that is converted into musical melody to convert everything into a fruitful dialogue with the culture of a country and this Luísa Villalta seemed very clear; to paixón to know the commitment to the land made her life and her legacy a way of understanding the world not that the word and the musical notes gained moita force, she was convinced that with these signs the world could be changed, from now on she could Your pen and voice in favor of the two most feble causes praise the unfairness of war ‘the issues are mine, they are the world itself.’

And in addition to poetry and music, he also wrote narrative and theater as an act of reflection and resistance and because in this way he also vindicated his condition as a muller as ‘a theme and an intimate desire to travel’.