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La analfabeta: Relato autobiográfico by Josep Maria Nadal Suau, Ágota Kristóf
inspiring
5.0
Tengo la convicción, la certidumbre, de que mi novela es una buena novela y de que será publicada sin problemas. Así pues, me siento más sorprendida que decepcionada cuando, después de cuatro o cinco semanas, mi manuscrito regresa de Gallimard, y después de Grasset, acompañado por una carta de rechazo educada e impersonal. Me digo a mí misma que tengo que ponerme a buscar direcciones de otros editores cuando, una tarde de noviembre, recibo una llamada telefónica. Gilles Carpentier, de Editions du Seuil. Me dice que acaba de leer mi manuscrito y que hace años que no leía algo tan bello. Me dice que lo ha leído por segunda vez y que piensa publicarlo. Pero para ello es preciso que obtenga el visto bueno de varias personas. Me volverá a llamar pasadas unas semanas. Una semana después me telefonea diciendo: «Preparo su contrato...».
Tres años más me paseo por las calles de Berlin con mi traductora, Erika Tophoven. Nos detenemos delante de las librerías. En los escaparates, mi segunda novela. En mi casa, en una estantería, El gran cuaderno, traducido a dieciocho idiomas.
En Berlín, por la noche, tenemos una velada de lectura. La gente viene para verme, para escucharme, para preguntarme cosas. Sobre mis libros, sobre mi vida, sobre mi trayectoria como escritora. He aquí la respuesta a la pregunta: uno se hace escritor escribiendo con paciencia y obstinación, sin perder nunca la fe en lo que se escribe.
La caza del Carualo by Lewis Carroll
5/5 solo para la edición de Nórdica Libros ilustrada por Tove Jansson <3
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
5.0
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society which has moved towards democracy and then stopped half way is the ideal society for generating such an emotion. The pursuit of individual happiness has been acknowledged as a universal right. Yet the existing social conditions make the individual feel powerless. He lives in the contradiction between what he is and what he would like to be. Either he then becomes fully conscious of the contradiction and its causes, and so joins the political struggle for a full democracy which entails, amongst other things, the overthrow of capitalism; or else he lives, continually subject to an envy which, compounded with his sense of powerlessness, dissolves into recurrent day-dreams. It is this which makes it possible to understand why publicity remains credible. The gap between what publicity actually offers and the future it promises, corresponds with the gap between what the spectator-buyer feels himself to be and what he would like to be. The two gaps become one; and instead of the single gap being bridged by action or lived experience, it is filled with glamorous day-dreams.
The process is often reinforced by working conditions.
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Updated Edition) by Anthony Bourdain
5.0
Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook by Shel Silverstein
The fact that Shel Silverstein worked on this book for 20 years warms my heart. And lickname should be a word in the dictionary.
4.0
RUNNY'S RIG BOMANCE
Runny had a firlgriend,
Her name was Sunny Bue.
He called her nots of licknames, Like "Kitchy-Itchy-Koo."
Sometimes he called her "Boney-Hun," And sometimes "Dovey Lear,"
But he only called her "Peety-Swie"
When no one else could hear.
The fact that Shel Silverstein worked on this book for 20 years warms my heart. And lickname should be a word in the dictionary.