“Fortunately for literature, that aversion to everything that distorts the brain and transforms behavior has not prevented the sober Ellroy from creating a devastating prose and permanently related to vertigo, extracting terrifying realism from arguments, feelings and violence that border on delirium , brilliantly portray the dark face of his country,
“The immense literary talent of Jhumpa Lahiri (London, 1967) is based on the fact that he is able to tell the same story over and over again, stories of Indian immigrants on the East Coast of the United States, and that it is always different. Critics have compared her to a miniaturist for her ability to accurately describe
Exhibition “Jorge Oteiza. The limits of transparency” “The Canal Foundation presents a selection of works by the Basque sculptor, Jorge Oteiza (Orio, Guipúzcoa, 1908- San Sebastián, 2003) that correspond to the culmination of the project called “Experimental Purpose”, with which he obtained in 1957 the First Prize for Sculpture at the IV São Paulo Biennial
“On page 50 we have already become scholars of New York, because it carries on its shoulders so many films and photographs, so many scenes and conversations, that the goal of knowing it seems within reach. In the next corner it will have faded, and start again. Actually, you don't even have to try. Though
Photography exhibition “The human and its environment” “The exhibition brings together a collection of 53 photographs by masters from various generations. Works by Berenice Abbott, José Manuel Ballester, Karl Blossfeldt, Henning Bock, Bill Brandt, Josef Breitenbach, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier Bresson, Philip Lorca diCorcia, Alfred Erhardt, Walter Evans, James A. Fox, Alberto García-Alix, Nan Goldin ,
“Few biographies like that of King Vidor (1894-1982) provide such a hopeful teaching about loyalty to the artistic vocation. A member of a wealthy clan from Galveston (Texas), Vidor rebelled against his father's plans, which planned for him a splendid future at the head of the family industries, and decided as a child to earn a living
“In the situation in which we find ourselves, the important thing is not whether the digital book is imposed or not, since the digital book is in itself another computer that copies its entire reproductive system and all its speed from the usual computer, what is decisive is the new valuation model that is
Exhibition “”From I to J. A tribute from Isabel Coixet to John Berger” “It is an exhibition and an international tribute from the filmmaker Isabel Coixet to John Berger. Based on John Berger's book From A to X, in which a woman writes letters to her imprisoned husband, Isabel Coixet creates an installation
“In her 45 years of exile, María Zambrano went through all the spaces of absence. Assuming exile was for her to inhabit her absence, from which her thought springs. Whoever thinks that her work responds to a matrix already formed before she left Spain is mistaken. She had a thought of her own that was developing
“Just as Joyce Carol Oates or Lorrie Moore always choose the hidden side of the everyday moon, Tyler prefers the visible side, the one closest to the reader. He then plays to sharpen it with the emotional pencil sharpener that he masters best, free indirect style (they tell us what Liam thinks, Liam tells us what he thinks), with impeccable dialogue