xabiroi
egile ugari. ehko ikastolen konfederazioa
Those of us who grew up with Ipurbeltz all have, to a certain extent, something to be grateful to the magazine for (we weren’t all that bad a generation after all). Quite a few of us have horded away collections of it as if it were some kind of prescious gem. Xabiroi takes up were ipurbeltz left off. Adopted both graphically and in content to the more modern times we live in. The artists involved offer a myriad of styles the contemporary stroylines certainly don’t insult children’s ontelligence. When we talk about local publications, we tend to compare them to other stuff being done internationally, and Xabiroi is definitely up there with the best of them (and we know what we’re talking about – we’ve read thousands of comics since the heady days of Ipurbeltz.) Who would have guessed thatwe’d be here reading a comic book like Xabiroi...
bala hutsak
castillo suarez. elkar poesia
Bullets are never anything but simple bullets. Just as poetry is never an empty vessel. Not an empty vessel but it can sometimes be worthless. This is not the case here even if the title suggests otherwise. Her bullets are certainly not blank. IN general you really shouldn’t believe the author (a poem is a painful thing/it makes/the memories nailed to our mind beautiful things/it reminds us of things true or otherwise/beauty is a cruel thing/that’s why we poets/ are not always sincere/that’s why we don’t always want to be sincere). She fires out small calibre rounds of poetry, but be warned, she can cause a lot of blood to flow in just a few lines. Those of us who don’t particularly like poetry love Castillo Suarez’s poems.
mes barbaritats de la cope
alvaro vioque. ara llibres
A book for the bedside table. There’s nothing better than a quick glance at any passage of this book to get you laughing first thing in the morning. Nothing more pleasurable. It’s a simple collection of the things they’ve said on COPE radio over the last few years. Don’t worry though, it’s not only politics that’s on offer here. The kind of things that people are coming out with in public leads one to an obvious state of reflection. Nobody’s denying that the professionals who work for COPE lack humour or imagination. Those of you able to take the mick out of your own ideology should get and enjoy this book. Those of you who are not, shouldn’t. The thing is, you’ll find on reading this book that anybody and everybody is capable of saying whatever to defend their own . You¡d be surprised how similar totally different people can sound.
la tierra caliente
paul bowles. alfaguara.
This balck novel is set in South America, and is his richest yet according to the author. It doesn’t follow in the footsteps of his “African” work, but you can also find the existentialist strokes ever present in his other work. As we delve further into Bowles’ story, the fever, the wet heat of the big river and the labyrinth of shacks and huts will start to make us nervous. The story here of the journey of a man and his wife to kill his mother is not one of love. It is a journey of fear. As Bowles himsel put it in an interview: “Love doesn’t move the world, it just increases the species. It is not as important as fear. Fear is above everything else. To start off with, we have the fear of dying. Then life itself is corcern for fear. If you don’t fear, you can’t breathe.”
