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The Artist

By Cine

La película francesa que conquistó el mundo.

 

Hoy 12 de octubre, se estrenó por primera vez en Francia la película The Artist. Mirando entradas en mi diario, topé con la entrada que hice el 26 de enero de 2012, y que dejo aquí, como pequeño y humilde homenaje a la película:

Ayer fui a ver The Artist muda, en blanco y negro, y una estupenda descripción de la caída de un hombre que no se sabe adaptar a los cambiantes tiempos, en su caso, a la aparición del cine sonoro, y que es salvado in extremis, por lo que seguramente él, y mucha gente, menos esperaba en ese estado de su vida: un rayo de amor.

Hay Festival and Mr Independence

By Hay Festival, Literatura, Narrativa breve

Photos: Jesús Pascual – IE Business School

 

Among the works I read out or recited at the Jardín del Romeral, the garden created by the reputed landscaper Leandro Silva, at this year’s Hay Festival Segovia 2018, this version of my short story Mr. No stands out. I have retitled it Mister Independence, from my book Dibugrafías, co-created with artist Miguel Panadero.

Mister Independence

Mister. Independence is very much at home in Indepenland, as one might well expect. The country is his. Streets, avenues, monuments, when not expressly dedicated to his personality cult, at one moment or another, all refer clearly to him. Needless to say, in general, the atmosphere in Indepenland is an Independent atmosphere.

Nevertheless, certain voices have highlighted not just the opportuneness of a certain independence, but furthermore, the need to resume talks with Depenland and Mister Dependence, because at the end of the day, they point out, it makes as little sense to go around shouting and asking for independence the whole time as it does to go around shouting and asking for dependence, and that’s without getting into the childishness involved in being surrounded by so many peers.

At the poetry recital in the Jardin del Romeral, which once again I coordinated, I was joined by writers such as the British-Egyptian Sabrina Mahfouz, Wales’s Dylan Moore, German poet Michael Krüger, Brazil’s Alexandre Vidal Porto, Polish poet Dorota Maslowska, British-Spanish poet Bek Clark, and poet and journalist Carlos Aganzo. Also taking part were, among others, Caroline Michel, the President of the Hay Festival, Simon Manley, the UK ambassador to Spain, and the ambassador of the Netherlands in Spain, Matthijs van Bonzel.

 

 

El huevo o la gallina

By Narrativa breve

Yo empecé a escribir, cuando él ya había pintado. Muchas veces, sin embargo, conté historias que él no pintó. ¿Podría haber escrito esas historias sin que él me hubiese dado pie a través de sus pinturas? ¿Hay algún pozo de dónde sacamos las historias? ¿Qué fue primero? ¿El huevo o la gallina?

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