By Gabriel Abalos
Pages to hear and invoke
After a night of readings multiplied in various spaces, last week, the current one has once again invoked and called to see and hear full manifestations of literature. Book Week is taking place, an initiative of the municipal Communication and Culture Secretariat, which is being deployed in various cultural spaces. On Tuesday, at the Córdoba Library, organized by the Juan Filloy headquarters of the National Library, the book was welcomed, the title of which describes an interesting study: Nace en Provincia… – The poetry of Córdoba, Argentina, from the years ‘ 30 until the end of the ’80s of the 20th century. A personal dossier. Volume I. Decades of the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s. Its author, the poet and essayist Eugenia Cabral, provides a rich and due review of the history and poetic sensitivity of Córdoba, which promises its continuation. What better opportunity to see the light.
And yesterday, the Library on 27 de Abril Street was the scene of another peak of literature, with an exhibition of historical editions by Lugones, the meeting of a conclave of specialists to talk about popular culture in the north of Córdoba, birthplace of the writer ; and the eyes of experts analyzed the projection of Lugones’ work, on the 150th anniversary of his birth, in the light of the current Argentine edition. At the Evita Museum there was another focus in the afternoon, when Babilonia Literaria combined orality and scenic interpretation with the palace as a background: a plethora of actors and actresses embodied in their voices a selection of masterpieces by local authors, among them Cristina Bajo and María Teresa Andruetto.
That is to say, the literary planets have left a mark on their orbits and, as if that were not enough, today is the Argentine Writer’s Day and everything leads back to the unavoidable Lugones and the north of Cordoba. There the Córdoba Culture Agency directs its eyes to the birthplace of the poet and writer, in Villa de María de Rio Seco, the main town of the Department of Río Seco, where there will be activities in the morning: an actor, impersonating Lugones, will tour the rooms of the museum to dialogue with the public, while in the courtyard of the House Museum poems of his authorship hang like sheets. There will be talks and educational activities, including an origami workshop on the birds portrayed and apostrophized by Leopoldo. And also music that pays tribute to the north of Córdoba.
Everything also leads back to the Córdoba Library, where the poetic cult evokes the accurate and lacerating Glauce Baldovin, who is honored by Livia Hidalgo, Ernestina Elorriaga and Julio Castellanos, fanning the fire of her memory. At 19.
For its part, at the Capdevila Library, Historical Cabildo, a review of Argentine historical cinema is proposed at 6:00 p.m., with a talk-debate: The gaucha war (1942) by Lucas Demare is projected, based on the book by Lugones, an activity coordinated by Domingo Ighina and Quique González. And at 8:30 p.m., in the same place, a Panel will refer to Strange Forces: politics and esotericism from the fantasy genre, with Javier Mercado and Ezequiel Rogna. It is organized by the Municipality of Córdoba, the Córdoba Library, the Juan Filloy Headquarters of the National Library, Chairs of Argentine Literature I, Argentine Literature II and Latin American Thought (School of Letters – Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities – UNC).
And there is still room in the list, not chronologically, for some Book Week events, this Writer’s Day, organized in bookstores in the city. At El Emporio Libros (July 9, 182) the public will be able to stop to expand what they know about urban legends of Córdoba, with the help of the writer Luis Alberto Luján. That will be at 5:30 p.m., and at 6:30 p.m. there will be Poetry on the Go at the En un Lugar de La Mancha location (Catamarca 1131), to move on at 6:30 p.m. to Librería del Palacio (Ituzaingó 882), where there will be dialogue and readings with the poet disobedient Claudia Masin, author of Disobedience and several other titles.
Better than the preaching, the trip
At the Municipal Cineclub there are premieres this Thursday and Argentine cinema prevails on the billboard. At 3:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., Paula Hernández’s film The Wind That Devastates is on the program, following the journey of a preacher and his daughter through towns in the province. Based on a great novel by Selva Almada that gained national and international recognition, this story has two characters, Reverend Pearson, an irrepressible preacher, and Leni, his teenage daughter, aware of her life tied to that tireless energy. and authoritarian. Two other characters are added to the dark story, when they have to stop at a cabin due to a storm. The violence of the evangelizing irruption will unleash strong reactions. Alfredo Castro, Sergi López perform.
At 6 and 11 pm you will see Mixtape La Pampa (2023), a production from Argentina and Chile directed by Andrés Di Tella, a documentary with an essay vocation that presents a cinematographic diary about a trip through the pampa and in the figure of Guillermo Enrique Hudson , in search of that identity that pulsates in the Argentine plain and in the interior pampas of the director and in those of memory.
Bv. San Juan 49, general admission $3000. Subscribers $300.
The subtle, the infamous
The Cine Arte Córdoba, April 27, 275, offers today a first and last screening with the Japanese film Innocence (2023) by Hirokazu Kore-edai, a complex story that is only known in parts, in which its protagonists are a ten-year-old boy, his widowed mother and a teacher at the school he attends. Prejudices and revelations allow us to approach the conscience of a child devastated by his thoughts.
At 7:15 p.m., Incaa space time, Correspondent (2024) is screened, an Argentine film by Emiliano Serra in which a journalist covering the 1978 World Cup becomes a collaborator of the dictatorship. The story exposes the complicity of the military government and the media, manipulated by the intelligence services.
General admission $2000, retirees and students $1500, available at the box office.
