“Mirror of Shadows” by Felicidad Blanc “It is the testimony of someone who, trying to recover the past, his past, feels that what memory returns to him are beings and moments transmuted into shadows in a mirror.” Extracted from the back cover. See also: http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/BLANC/_FELICIDAD/Felicidad/Blanc/literatura/nos/salva/elpepicul/19771123elpepicul_2/Tes http://www.miradas.net/0204/cults/ 2004/0405_eldesencanto.html http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicidad_Blanc The selected titles are a sample of the materials
“Old books, rare friends” by Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern “Louisa May Alcott once wrote that she had taken her pen for a bridegroom. Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern, friends and business partners for fifty years, have in many ways taken up their pens and passion for literature much in the same way.” Taken from
“The memory chalet” by Tony Jud “The Memory Chalet is a memory unlike any you have ever read before. Each essay charts some experience or remembrance of the past through the sieve of Tony Judt's prodigious mind. His youthful love of a particular London bus route evolves into a reflection on public civility and interwar
“My name is Rigoberta Menchú and that is how my conscience was born” by Elisabeth Burgos “The autobiography of Rigoberta Menchú, told to Elizabeth Burgos. The ethnological description of a Central American Indian community made by a young indigenous woman, who has learned one of the universal languages for this purpose, and who handles it with precision and ease,
“The talented Miss Highsmith: the secret life and serious art of Patricia Highsmith” by Joan Schenkar “Author and playwright Schenkar (Truly Wilde) presents a compelling portrait of suspense novelist Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995), whose own life was often as twisted as that of her anti-hero Tom Ripley. Dispensing with the traditional chronological narrative, Schenkar divides her
Participate by reading the recommended book and attending the colloquium that is usually held on the last Thursday of each month. Session led by Rosana Acquaroni, Ph.D. Cycle “Memories – other lives, other worlds”. Free and free admission with prior registration at library@iie.es Book of the month: “The hour of truth” by Rosa Regàs “In
“Seductive, enlightened and visionary: six characters in adverse times” JM Castellet “Josep M. Castellet offers us a vision of six characters, «all personal friends and companions of literary or cultural adventure for many years», in the adverse times of the dictatorship. Manuel Sacristán, Carlos Barral, Gabriel Ferrater, Joan Fuster, Alfonso Carlos Comín and Terenci Moix,
“Dialogue with Death: (A Spanish Testament)” by Arthur Koestler “Arrested by Francoist troops in 1937 when he was in Malaga as a foreign correspondent to cover the civil war, and sentenced to death for espionage, Arthur Koestler waited three months for his death. execution in the prison of Seville. A Spanish will recounts in the form of
“Memories of a man of action / Pío Baroja “Between 1913 and 1935 appeared the 22 volumes of a long historical novel, Memoirs of a man of action, based on the life of one of his ancestors, the conspirator and liberal adventurer and Freemason Eugenio de Aviraneta (1792–1872), through which he reflects the most
“Confessions and Memories” by Eugenio d'Ors “An architect angel must have planned the top of my head to reach an ideation. Meanwhile, a vindictive devil was pleased to build, in the lower one, a cellar for the intoxications of instinct. As long as my head doesn't turn and what has happened upstairs